<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hahn, David L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Plane, Mary Beth</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feasibility of a Practical Clinical Trial for Asthma Conducted in Primary Care</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004-05-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">190-195</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3122/jabfm.17.3.190</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Background: Practical clinical trials (PCTs) are essential to generate relevant evidence-based information to improve patient health. Primary care physicians’ experience performing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on representative patient populations is limited. We implemented a pilot practice-based asthma PCT to answer the following feasibility questions: (1) Was clinician interest initiated and maintained? (2) Did clinicians enroll patients into an RCT and complete follow-up? (3) Was an interactive voice-response (IVR) telephone system useful to collect patient-reported data?Methods: The protocol included (1) broadly representative adult asthma eligibility criteria, (2) self-reported patient-oriented outcomes, and (3) use of IVR to collect these data. Physicians in practice-based research networks, managed care organizations, and academic networks volunteered to participate.Results: Of 13 physician volunteers, 10 (8 single-person office practices, 1 emergency department physician, 1 clinical researcher) from 4 states and 1 Canadian province enrolled 58 subjects and randomized 45 meeting final eligibility criteria; 39 (87%) attended the follow-up visit. However, only 34 (76%) provided adequate follow-up IVR self-report data, and subjects with less than a high school education provided significantly (P &lt; .001) less data than other groups.Conclusions: Physician recruiting, randomizing, and completing a representative sample of adult asthma patients was feasible. The utility of IVR in primary care research requires further study.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>