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A Randomized Trial Comparing "Push" Versus "Pull" Technology for Mobilizing Pain Evidence Into Practice Across Different Health Professions

NCT01348802 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 675

Last updated 2015-09-23

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Summary

Pain is a problem for many Canadians. Unfortunately, many doctors, nurses, therapists, and psychologists have trouble keeping up to date and applying the latest research that might help patients suffering with pain. This study will determine whether sending alerts about new pain research directly to these health professionals, and providing them with access to accumulated alerts, will help. The study will compare knowledge and decisions made by health professionals about managing pain problems. The investigators will compare physicians, nurses, rehab therapists and psychologists at the beginning of the study and after having access to different ways to find out about new pain research. One group will receive alerts about new pain studies that have been found to be high quality and relevant to patient care, and will be able to search the alerts database. The other group will be able to find the same studies,but must go to the database of research studies to locate them. The investigators will include 670 doctors, nurses, rehab therapists, and psychologists in this study. A process like tossing a coin will determine which way they are able to get pain research information. The investigators will monitor how much information they access and how they apply it to managing pain problems. The investigators expect that reminding health care providers about new research findings directly will help them, since difficulty finding studies and lack of time prevent them from using the latest research. The investigators expect that reminders about the latest research will help them make better decisions about caring for patients' pain.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Push + Pull

Push + Pull is evidence on pain that is extracted from medical, nursing, psychology and rehabilitation journals, appraised for quality and relevance, and delivered to clinicians by e-mail alerts or available for searches of the accumulated database.

BEHAVIORAL

Pull

Pull will be an intervention with a similar front-face but requires clinicians to go to the site and extract evidence from an electronic database.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • McMaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joy MacDermid, PhD · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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