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Pragmatic Factorial Cluster Trial of Framing and Comparators for Audit and Feedback

NCT02979964 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 285

Last updated 2018-10-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Health Quality Ontario (HQO) is the provincial advisor on quality in health care. HQO currently conducts audit and feedback as a key quality improvement strategy. For example, it offers physicians working in long-term care homes with access to practice reports detailing rates of high-risk prescribing in comparison with others in Ontario and suggested change ideas. Research shows that providing this kind of feedback can lead to improvements in care. However, the size of these improvements depends how the feedback is presented. For instance, prior research suggests that how the results are 'framed' and what sort of benchmark the recipient is compared to may each affect how the physician will respond. This factorial trial tests each of these aspects of feedback design in the context of practice reports that nursing home physicians have already signed up to receive quarterly.

Conditions

  • High-risk Prescribing in Nursing Homes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Audit and Feedback

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Quality Ontario

    collaborator OTHER

  • Women's College Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Noah M Ivers, MD PhD CCFP · Women's College Hospital - University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-06
Primary Completion
2017-10-06
Completion
2018-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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