Implementation Research: Embracing Practitioners' Views

General practitioners' views on drug-assisted rehabilitation.

BACKGROUND The Norwegian model for opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) "Drug-assisted rehabilitation" (DAR) is a cross-disciplinary tripartite model for the treatment of opioid dependence. The model requires collaboration among GPs, the social services and the specialist health services. To some degree it restricts the doctor's professional autonomy. The investigation aims to examine GPs' attitu...

Embracing diversity through mixed methods research

European Journal of Information Systems (2013) 22, 251–256. doi:10.1057/ejis.2013.6 Mixed methods research – ‘the third methodological movement’ (Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2009) – appears to be one of those phenomena that attracts considerable interest but is rarely brought into practice, at least judging by the publications in major information systems (IS) outlets, where mixed methods studies rep...

General practitioners' views on continuing medical education.

BACKGROUND The 1990 contract for general practitioners altered the provision of continuing medical education. AIM This study set out to examine doctors' experiences of postgraduate education before and after the contract and their preferences for the provision of postgraduate education. METHOD In 1991 a structured questionnaire was sent to 1959 doctors registered on the database held by the...

Remote primary health care practitioners' views about priorities in Indigenous dementia research.

Dementia is already the largest single cause of disability in the older Australian population. For Indigenous people, dementia is a major social, welfare and health problem, with rates of dementia in rural and remote communities estimated as approximately five-fold greater than the overall Australian prevalence 2 . The number of older Indigenous people (55 years and older) is projected to more ...

Christianity views fetal research.