Recruitment of healthcare specialists (letter)

Eliciting healthcare specialists’ opinions and experiences about barriers and enablers of evidence-based practice is considered an important part of the quality improvement process. Collaboration with hospitals is one method of gaining access to specialists within a single institution or area. However, although this approach enables greater physician engagement, it provides results with only local applicability. When the goal is to inform quality improvement on a broader scale, it is necessary to obtain views of a representative sample of specialists.