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Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety

NCT01602705 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 262

Last updated 2014-10-07

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Summary

We hypothesise that feedback and feedback + psychology informed intervention delivered to primary care medical practices will reduce high-risk prescribing to patients compared to a simple educational intervention alone. The specific objectives are :

1. To test the effectiveness of the two EFIPPS feedback arms in reducing the specified primary outcome of a composite measure of high-risk antipsychotic, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and antiplatelet drug prescribing
2. To test the effectiveness of the two EFIPPS feedback arms in reducing the specified secondary outcomes of the six individual measures constituting the composite
3. To assess the cost-effectiveness of the intervention

Conditions

  • Complications of Surgical and Medical Care: General Terms

Interventions

OTHER

Usual care

Practices in the usual care arm receive a one-off educational newsletter and support for searching for patients in their electronic health record in the form of downloadable searches

OTHER

Feedback of Performance

Usual care (educational newsletter and support for searching) plus quarterly feedback of practice rates of high risk prescribing compared to a benchmark of the upper quartile of all practices in the year before

OTHER

Feedback of Performance + Health Psychology Informed Intervention

Usual care (educational newsletter + support for searching) plus quarterly feedback plus health psychology informed intervention (persuasive communication and action planning) embedded in feedback

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Strathclyde

    collaborator OTHER

  • Information Services Division, NHS Scotland

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Dundee

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bruce Guthrie · Professor of Primary Care

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2013-10-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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