Table 1 Variation in approaches across sites
| Â | General approaches | Regional additions/variation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
BC | ON | NS | ||
Practice Recruitment | Regional study advisory stakeholder committee | Yes – comprised of lead physicians and executive directors from the Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Hope Divisions of Family Practicea, other health professionals, patients, and policy makers (n = 12) | No - Email correspondence with local physicians and policy makers for advice (n = 6) | Yes – comprised of local physicians, other health professionals, patients, and policy makers (n = 12) |
Engagement with local organizations | Partnership with Divisions of Family Practice. Meetings with Doctors of BC and General Practice Service Committee | Presentations to the Association of Family Health Teams, Health Quality Ontario, and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care | Meetings with the Nova Scotia Health Authority Department of Family Practice, Department of Health and Wellness, Provincial Primary Health Care Teams Operations Networking Group | |
Presence at physician-attended events | Standalone TRANSFORMATION events hosted by each Division of Family Practice in the study region Billing Workshop for physicians | Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) conferencea | Health authority’s Career Development Event Health authority’s Department of Family Practice Forum | |
Peer-to-peer practice recruitment | Three peer-to-peer recruiters. | Four geographically-dispersed peer-to-peer recruiters | One peer-to-peer recruiter | |
Demonstrate study relevance | Offered practice-based portrait of study findings 1-page brief created, with preliminary data as it is available, for peer-to-peer recruiters to use Standalone TRANFORMATION catered dinner to share preliminary data | Practices already receive practice-based feedback from provincial organization | Offered practice-based portrait of study findings | |
Patient Recruitment | Localized survey implementation | Hired localized survey administrators (SAs) Hired Punjabi-speaking SA for practices with high proportion (> 50%) of Punjabi-speaking patients | Did not hire localized SAs because researchers did not have sufficient ties to research assistants in the study region Surveys available in both English and French | Hired localized SAs Surveys only available in English |
Token of appreciation | $10 coffee gift card to patients | No gift card offered | $5 coffee gift cards to patients | |