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  • Clinical Trial Design
  • Qualitative Research

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  • Pragmatic trials require clinician enrollment, creating potential conflicts between patient care and research participation.
  • Clinician refusal to enroll patients can impede trial completion and limit generalizability.
  • The REGAIN trial (NCT02507505) investigated spinal vs. general anesthesia for hip fracture patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore anesthesiologists' reasoning processes when deciding whether to randomize eligible patients in a pragmatic trial.
  • To identify factors influencing clinician decisions regarding patient enrollment in clinical research.
  • To inform strategies for mitigating clinician refusal and enhancing trial recruitment.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study involving interviews with 29 anesthesiologists participating in the REGAIN trial.
  • Employed a constructivist grounded theory approach with chart-stimulated and semi-structured interviews.
  • Data analysis included coding, focused coding for thematic synthesis, and abductive reasoning.

Main Results:

  • Anesthesiologists prioritize preventing perioperative complications, using prototype- and probability-based reasoning with varying uncertainty.
  • Clinicians expressed confidence in anesthetic options when accepting patients for randomization.
  • Despite supporting research, clinicians cited production pressure and workflow disruptions as major barriers to participation.

Conclusions:

  • Current assessments of clinician randomization decisions may overlook the nuances of clinical reasoning.
  • Understanding clinicians' specific reasoning patterns is crucial for evaluating enrollment decisions and anticipating future participation.
  • Tailored approaches considering clinical reasoning are needed to improve pragmatic trial recruitment and generalizability.