Recruitment of multiple stakeholders to health services research: Lessons from the front lines

Table 1 Recruitment data sources.

Participant Type	Guideline Developers	Clinicians (Oncologists, Intensivists, Cardiologists)	Policy/Decision-Makers
Data sources	-AGREE partners -Canadian Medical Association Guidelines Infobase -Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Corporation -Conference on Guideline Standardization (COGS) participants -Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working group -Guidelines International Network	Publicly-available lists from the websites of the following provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons: -Alberta -British Columbia Manitoba -New Brunswick -Newfoundland and Labrador -Nova Scotia -Ontario -Prince Edward Island	-Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health -Cancer Care Ontario (Committee to Evaluate Drugs, Clinical Program Heads, Clinical Council) -Canadian Pharmacists' Association -Health Canada (Chronic and Continuing Care Division, Health Products and Food Branch, Pharmaceuticals Management Strategies, Therapeutic Effectiveness and Policy Bureau) -Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee

At the time of our study, the following provinces or territories did not have publicly available physician lists: Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. The province of Quebec did not have a list of physicians by specialty (only by physician name). The Yukon Territory limited the use of their physician data for informational purposes only.

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