Recruitment
RECRUITMENT
The recruitment of GPs for study participation takes place three months prior to the start of the intervention phase by the three participating regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (ASHIP) Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine and Westphalia-Lippe, considering the available contingent of participants in their region. In Germany, the ASHIP are bodies under public law, which represent all physicians and psychotherapists treating compulsory insured patients. First, all potentially eligible GPs in the three regions, meaning GPs participating in primary care according to § 73 (1a) SGB V (excluding paediatricians), who have vaccinated patients aged 60 and older insured by the substitute health insurance fund in the past, will be identified. Substitute health insurance funds are a type of health insurance fund with the largest percentage of insured persons on the German market. There are no other major differences between this and other types of health insurance funds. Subsequently, these GPs will be stratified by the three ASHIPs, and randomised into two groups (intervention/control). The potential participating GPs in the intervention group will be contacted by the responsible ASHIP and receive the offer to participate in the intervention group. It is pointed out that participation in the intervention is also associated with participation in the accompanying evaluation study. Subsequently, all enrolled GPs, as well as at least one medical assistant from the practice, complete the online training that is completed after an online knowledge test and submit the certificate of successful participation to the associated ASHIP.