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Education and Feedback Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms

NCT01968642 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2014-02-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The utilization of transthoracic echocardiography in the United States has been increasing. This has resulted in increased costs to the healthcare system. In an effort to curb excessive utilization of this technology, the American College of Cardiology created Appropriate Use Criteria to help guide clinicians to use this diagnostic imaging modality more appropriately. The investigators previously showed that an educational intervention can reduce the rate of inappropriate echocardiograms ordered by physicians-in-training. It is unknown if such an intervention would be successful in attending, staff level of physicians. The investigators hypothesize that an educational and feedback intervention will reduce the rate of inappropriate outpatient transthoracic echocardiograms ordered by staff cardiologists and internal medicine physicians.

Conditions

  • Inappropriate and Appropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rory B Weiner, MD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-11-30
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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