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Does Inclusion of Viral Prescription Pad Resources Increase Responsiveness to Feedback About Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care

NCT05044052 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3379

Last updated 2023-01-05

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Summary

Antibiotic overuse is common and antibiotic prescribing contributes to rising rates of antimicrobial resistance. Primary care physicians prescribe the majority of all antibiotics and there is large inter-physician variability in prescribing that cannot be explained by differences in patient populations.

In Ontario, audit and feedback (A\&F) is routinely offered to primary care providers from a variety of sources. Ontario Health - an agency created by the Government of Ontario - provides A\&F via email to physicians who voluntarily sign up for their "MyPractice" reports. These are multi-topic reports with aggregated (physician-level) data. As of November 2021, the MyPractice reports for family physicians will include data on antibiotic prescribing. To date, less than half of Ontario family physicians have signed up for the MyPractice reports from Ontario Health.

For this study, the investigators will conduct a trial to investigate the effect of adding viral prescription pad resources to family physician A\&F received through a MyPractice: Primary Care report. This evaluation provides an opportunity to determine if the addition of this resource to an A\&F intervention increases changes to antibiotic prescribing.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emphasis on the Choosing Wisely Viral Prescription Pad

We will investigate the effects of emphasizing the use of materials developed by Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) - namely the viral prescription pad - to help physicians act upon the feedback to reduce their prescribing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • College of Family Physicians of Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Women's College Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Noah M Ivers, MD · Women's College Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-15
Primary Completion
2022-06-15
Completion
2022-12-15

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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