Table 1 Sampling and methods summary:
Phase 1: Screening questionnaire – All GDPs to identify: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Personally provide implant treatment | Refer on | Never offer | ||||
Refer within primary care | Refer to Secondary | |||||
Phase 2: Interviews with GDPs about practice | ||||||
Personally provide implant treatment | Refer within primary care | Refer to Secondary | ||||
To provide retrospective and prospective sample for Phase3 | ||||||
Phase 3: Interviews with patients retrospectively and prospectively | ||||||
Offered treatment by another GDP | Offered treatment by own GDP | Referred to secondary care | ||||
Accept Implants | Refuse Implants | Accept Implants | Refuse Implants | Accept Implants | Refuse Implants | |