{"doi":"10.1186/1472-6947-8-13","title":"Physicians' perceptions of an electronic health record-based clinical trial alert approach to subject recruitment: A survey","abstract":null,"journal":"BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making","year":2008,"id":673893,"datarank":0.635115975689589,"base_score":4.23410650459726,"endowment":4.23410650459726,"self_citation_contribution":0.635115975689589,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.635115975689589,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":68,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1606955,"name":"Anil Jain","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1760714,"name":"C Martin Harris","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1760713,"name":"Peter J Embi","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Physicians' perceptions of an electronic health record-based clinical trial alert approach to subject recruitment: A survey","abstract":"<h4>Background</h4>Physician participation in clinical research recruitment efforts is critical to many studies' success, but it is often limited. Use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based, point-of-care Clinical Trial Alert (CTA) approach has led to significant increases in physician-generated recruitment and holds promise for wider benefit. However, little is known about physicians' decision-making regarding recruitment in EHR-equipped settings or the use of such EHR-based approaches. We sought to assess physicians' perceptions about recruitment in general and using the CTA approach in particular.<h4>Methods</h4>We developed and delivered a Web-based survey consisting of 15 multiple-choice and free-text questions. Participants included the 114 physician subjects (10 endocrinologists and 104 general internists) who were exposed to CTAs during our preceding 4-month intervention study. Response data were descriptively analyzed, and key findings were compared between groups using appropriate statistical tests.<h4>Results</h4>Sixty-nine physicians (61%) responded during the 10-week survey period. Respondents and non-respondents did not differ significantly. Twenty-seven percent of respondents felt very comfortable recruiting patients to trials in general, and 77% appreciated being reminded about a trial via a CTA. Only 11% percent felt the CTA was difficult to use, and 27% felt it was more than somewhat intrusive. Among those who ignored all CTAs, 37% cited a lack of time, 28% knowledge of the patient's ineligibility, and 13% limited knowledge about the trial as their most common reason. Thirty-eight percent wanted more information about the trial presented in the CTA, and 73% were interested in seeing CTAs for future trials. Comments and suggestions were submitted by 33% of respondents and included suggestions for improvement of the CTA approach.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Most physicians were comfortable recruiting patients for clinical trials at the point-of-care, found the EHR-based CTA approach useful and would like to see it used in the future. These findings provide insight into the perceived utility of this EHR-based approach to subject recruitment, suggest ways it might be improved, and add to the limited body of knowledge regarding physicians' attitudes toward clinical trial recruitment in EHR-equipped settings.","is_dataset_classified":null,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"18384682","pmcid":"PMC2374776","openalex_id":null,"authors":[],"funders":[{"funder_name":"NLM NIH HHS","grant_id":"K22 LM008534","title":null},{"funder_name":"NLM NIH HHS","grant_id":"LM008534","title":null}],"total_grants":2,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[],"oa_status":"gold","license":"cc-by","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1472-6947-8-13","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1472-6947-8-13/fulltext.html","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1472-6947-8-13.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1472-6947-8-13","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2374776","host_type":"repository"},{"url":"https://doaj.org/article/766d436172c340359955f0b8e8fb8d44","host_type":"repository"},{"url":"https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1472-6947-8-13","host_type":"Unpaywall"},{"url":"http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/8/13/abstract","host_type":"BioMedCentral"},{"url":"http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/8/13","host_type":"BioMedCentral"},{"url":"http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6947-8-13.pdf","host_type":"BioMedCentral"},{"url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2374776","host_type":"Europe_PMC"},{"url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2374776?pdf=render","host_type":"Europe_PMC"}],"fields_of_study":["Attitude of Health Personnel","Attitude to Computers","Clinical Trials as Topic","Data Collection","Endocrinology","Family Practice","Female","Humans","Male","Medical Records Systems, Computerized","Patient Selection","Physicians","Point-of-Care Systems","Reminder Systems","Surveys and Questionnaires"],"mesh_terms":["Humans","Data Collection","Medical Records Systems, Computerized","Attitude of Health Personnel","Attitude to Computers","Endocrinology","Family Practice","Patient Selection","Reminder Systems","Physicians","Point-of-Care Systems","Female","Male","Clinical Trials as Topic","Surveys and Questionnaires"],"keywords":[],"sdg_mappings":[],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-08-16T14:50:47.068702Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}