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A Brief Intervention to Improve Cost-effective Resource Use Among Medicine Housestaff

NCT01303263 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2011-06-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

OBJECTIVE: To test a brief intervention designed to improve the cost-effectiveness of care provided by medicine housestaff for hospitalized patients.

HYPOTHESIS: A brief intervention in which medicine residents receive itemized bills for recent patients cared for by them, followed by a discussion on approaches to reducing unnecessary inpatient costs, can result in significant cost reductions without adversely affecting patient outcomes.

Conditions

  • Graduate Medical Education
  • Cost-Effectiveness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Intervention

45-minute teaching session on healthcare costs, in which each resident reviewed an itemized hospital bill for a patient he/she had cared for, followed by an open-ended discussion about reducing unnecessary costs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Partners Center of Expertise in Quality and Patient Safety

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David Bates, MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Benjamin D Sommers, MD, PhD · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2011-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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