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Table 1 Lack of familiarity with the study design

From: A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the McNulty-Zelen design for randomised controlled trials evaluating educational interventions

Lack of familiarity with the design:

 

 Z8, NURSE: “I was unsure of what the design was having not heard about the Zelen design before and never been involved in a project that incorporated this type of auditing”

 

 Z13, GP: “I was quite fascinated by it …whether I truly understand it I don’t know but er it’s intriguing”

 

 S1, PCRN SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER: “initially I thought well that’s something different because obviously normally we would seek interest from the practice and get their consent initially before they took part in a study so this was obviously the opposite way of approaching it. But then reading through it why it was a good way”

 

Trial design seen as monitoring of performance:

 

 Z13, GP: “I go into this assuming something like this is going to happen going to look at your figures PCT’s are always looking at your figures”

 

 Z14, GP: “monitoring of our performance is just sort of second nature”