Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease guideline implementation: lessons learned on recruitment of primary care physicians to a knowledge translation study.
BACKGROUND
Implementation of current clinical practice guidelines in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is suboptimal. New implementation strategies should be developed and evaluated.


METHODS
The authors report the rationale and planned methods of a project that sought to use a multifaceted knowledge translation intervention consisting of interactive education, mentorship through quality circles and practice-based tools in primary care to address key asthma and COPD care gaps. The present study was aborted due to inadequate primary care physician recruitment. Accordingly, the authors provide a critical review of their recruitment strategies and discuss alternative approaches and examples based on previous literature.


CONCLUSIONS
These practical lessons and discussion seek to inform researchers involved in designing and recruiting for future knowledge translation studies addressing chronic disease management in primary care.
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Quebéc, Université Laval, Québec. lpboulet@med.ulaval.ca
Louis-Philippe
LP
Boulet
Paul
P
Hernandez
Hollie
H
Devlin
Marni A
MA
Freeman
Samir
S
Gupta
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care / Q000193:education*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D055815:Young Adult