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Do Clinicians Want Recommendations?

NCT02006017 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 467

Last updated 2017-09-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The use of the best evidence available for decision-making is nowadays an undisputed goal in health care. However, this is not always achieved in the context of clinical practice. Two of the potential solutions to bridge the gap between evidence and the clinical practice are the "evidence summaries" and the "evidence based recommendations". However, it is not clear, and frequently controversial, to what extent clinicians consider helpful recommendations accompanying evidence summaries. The investigators will explore this question by conducting a study where clinicians will be randomized to receive a clinical scenario accompanied by an evidence summary plus a recommendation and a second clinical scenario accompanied by only for an evidence summary (group A) or vice versa (Group B). The outcome will be clinicians' preferences.

Conditions

  • Healthy Individuals (Clinicians)

Interventions

OTHER

Evidence summary alone plus a recommendation

OTHER

Evidence summary alone

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Holger Schunemann, MD, PhD · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-08-30
Completion
2017-08-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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