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Impact of Handing to Patients a Copy of the Consultation Report on Their Medicine Consumption

NCT02237573 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2015-06-22

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Summary

In France, patients with benign viral infections (ie: gastro enteritis and/or rhinopharyngitis, etc.) often receive several prescriptions from their doctors, although there is evidence that these medicines are not efficient.

We hypothesize that patients could be reassured by health advices, especially if they are written. In addition, we believe that doctors would feel less guilty for not prescribing drugs if they could hand written consultation reports to patients, in these situations.

We aim to assess the impact of handing to patients with viral gastroenteritis or upper respiratory tract infections, a copy of the consultation report on their medicine consumption.

Conditions

  • Viral Gastro Enteritis
  • Pharyngitis

Interventions

OTHER

Written medical report and standardized medical advices

The intervention will include: 1) handing the patient at the end of the consultation a copy of the consultation report which will be composed of: 1. a detailed report of the consultation (motive, case history, clinical examination, conclusion) 2. written standardized medical advices from evidence published in the literature. Interventions will be designed by several general practitioners and tested by few patients.

OTHER

Control

Other: Oral standardized medical advices from evidence published in the literature. Physicians will be trained by a single investigator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Viet-Thi Tran, MD · Paris Diderot University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-12-31
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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