REFERRING PATIENTS TO CA PREVENTION & SCREENING TRIALS

描述：（申请人的描述）将患者转诊至癌症 预防和筛查临床试验：初级保健医生 态度、知识和经验 这项探索性的横断面研究将评估初级保健 医生对病人转诊的态度、知识和经验 癌症预防和筛查试验。 通过详细的调查， 半结构化的面对面访谈，这项研究将阐明因素 影响医生的决定或意图，将少数民族和女性 患者进行预防和筛查试验。 按医生进行的组比较 实践特征、患者人群和组织因素 将被制造。 这项研究的具体目的是：（a）描述初级保健 医生对癌症预防的态度、知识和经验 和筛选临床试验;（B）确定影响 医生决定或有意将患者转诊至癌症预防机构 （c）查明妇女在医生转诊方面的障碍， 少数群体的癌症预防试验，并阐明差异之间 初级保健医生根据他们的实践特点，实力， （d）发展假设 如何改善初级保健医生对妇女和少数民族的转诊 癌症预防试验。 这项研究的结果将告知卫生保健提供者，研究人员， 管理人员和政策制定者了解与当前模式有关的因素 转介到癌症预防和筛查临床试验。 我们将使用 这些探索性的发现将在随后的研究中测试 我们已经产生的假设，并验证医生自我报告与其他 关于实际做法的数据来源。 后续研究的结果将 用于制定基于数据的政策建议， 初级保健医生将妇女和少数民族转诊至癌症 预防试验。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) Referring Patients to Cancer Prevention and Screening Clinical Trials: Primary Care Physicians' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Experience This exploratory, cross-sectional study will evaluate primary care physicians' attitudes, knowledge, and experience regarding patient referral to cancer prevention and screening trials. Through a detailed survey and semi-structured in-person interviews, this research will elucidate factors that affect physicians' decisions or intent to refer minority and female patients to prevention and screening trials. Group comparisons by physician practice characteristics, patient populations, and organizational factors will be made. The specific aims of this study are: (a) to describe primary care physicians' attitudes, knowledge, and experience regarding cancer prevention and screening clinical trials; (b) to identify the factors that affect a physician's decision or intent to refer patients to cancer prevention clinical trials; (c) to identify barriers to physician referral of women and minorities to cancer prevention trials, and to elucidate differences among primary care physicians based on their practice characteristics, strength of academic affiliation, and patient population; and (d) to develop hypotheses on how to improve primary care physicians' referral of women and minorities to cancer prevention trials. Results from this study will inform health care providers, researchers, administrators, and policy makers about factors related to current patterns of referral to cancer prevention and screening clinical trials. We will use these exploratory findings in subsequent research that will test the hypotheses we have generated, and validate physician self-reports with other sources of data on actual practice. Findings from subsequent research will be used to develop data-based policy recommendations on how to improve primary care physicians' referral of women and minorities to cancer prevention trials.