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2025-12-26 @ 3:51 AM
Study NCT ID:
NCT00853918
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2017-10-06
First Post:
2009-02-27
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
False
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
Clinical Practice Intensity: Comparing Veterans Affairs (VA) to Private Sector Physicians
Sponsor:
Organization:
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Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care. Ann Intern Med. 2006 May 2;144(9):641-9. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-144-9-200605020-00007.'}, {'pmid': '17119136', 'type': 'RESULT', 'citation': 'Robertson DJ, Sirovich BE. Colorectal cancer risk following a negative colonoscopy. JAMA. 2006 Nov 22;296(20):2437; author reply 2437-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.296.20.2437-a. No abstract available.'}, {'pmid': '21949169', 'type': 'DERIVED', 'citation': "Sirovich BE, Woloshin S, Schwartz LM. Too Little? Too Much? Primary care physicians' views on US health care: a brief report. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Sep 26;171(17):1582-5. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.437."}]}, 'descriptionModule': {'briefSummary': 'This is a national physician mail survey examining primary care practice patterns. The experimental component of the study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of different monetary incentive forms and amounts for physicians invited to participate in the study. Only non-VA physicians will be included in this part of the study. (VA physicians are not allowed to receive monetary incentives.) Physicians will be randomized to receive one of four incentives. The main outcome measure is the response rate.', 'detailedDescription': 'This primary care physician survey is being conducted by Harris Interactive, an international survey research firm working collaboratively under contract to VA investigators heading the study. Surveys will be mailed to a random sample of 1000 non-VA primary care general internists practicing 20 or more clinical hours per week, identified via the Physician Masterfile of the American Medical Association.\n\nThe initial survey mailing, delivered via USPS Priority Mail, will include a cover letter inviting the physician to participate, a 12-page survey booklet (including a cover page, a 9-page survey, and 2 blank pages), a monetary incentive, and a prepaid addressed return envelope. The survey is estimated to take 20 minutes to complete. All survey recipients will also have the opportunity, as part of the survey, to request information about practice patterns in their community. Harris Interactive will randomly assign all invited (non-VA) physicians to receive one of four incentives, included in the initial survey mailing.\n\nNon-responders will be contacted two additional times (at approximately 2 and 4 weeks following the initial mailing) by telephone and by mail. Subsequent mailings will include the survey, a cover letter, and a stamped addressed return envelope, but no monetary incentive.\n\nResponse rates will be compared between the four arms of the trial; between check v. cash; and between different denominations.'}, 'eligibilityModule': {'sex': 'ALL', 'stdAges': ['CHILD', 'ADULT', 'OLDER_ADULT'], 'healthyVolunteers': False, 'eligibilityCriteria': 'Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Primary care general internists in the United States, identified through the AMA Physician Masterfile, who practice at least 20 hours per week are eligible to participate.\n* All physicians included in the sample to whom the survey packets are mailed will be included in the analysis of the incentive experiment, except those for whom a survey packet is returned as undeliverable and those non-respondents identified through follow-up procedures as non-locatable, deceased, or retired.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n\\- Physicians self-identified in the AMA Masterfile as medical subspecialists or hospitalists are excluded from the sample.'}, 'identificationModule': {'nctId': 'NCT00853918', 'briefTitle': 'Clinical Practice Intensity: Comparing Veterans Affairs (VA) to Private Sector Physicians', 'organization': {'class': 'FED', 'fullName': 'VA Office of Research and Development'}, 'officialTitle': 'Clinical Practice Intensity: Comparing VA to Private Sector Providers', 'orgStudyIdInfo': {'id': 'IIR 03-242'}, 'secondaryIdInfos': [{'id': 'DMS-17632', 'type': 'OTHER_GRANT', 'domain': 'White River Junction VAMC'}]}, 'armsInterventionsModule': {'armGroups': [{'type': 'EXPERIMENTAL', 'label': '$20 Cash', 'interventionNames': ['Other: $20 cash']}, {'type': 'EXPERIMENTAL', 'label': '$50 Cash', 'interventionNames': ['Other: $50 cash']}, {'type': 'EXPERIMENTAL', 'label': '$50 Check', 'interventionNames': ['Other: $50 check']}, {'type': 'EXPERIMENTAL', 'label': '$100 Check', 'interventionNames': ['Other: $100 check']}], 'interventions': [{'name': '$20 cash', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': '$20 cash incentive mailed with survey', 'armGroupLabels': ['$20 Cash']}, {'name': '$50 cash', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': '$50 cash incentive mailed with survey', 'armGroupLabels': ['$50 Cash']}, {'name': '$50 check', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': '$50 check incentive mailed with survey', 'armGroupLabels': ['$50 Check']}, {'name': '$100 check', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': '$100 check incentive mailed with survey', 'armGroupLabels': ['$100 Check']}]}, 'contactsLocationsModule': {'overallOfficials': [{'name': 'Brenda E Sirovich, MD MS', 'role': 'PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR', 'affiliation': 'White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT'}]}, 'sponsorCollaboratorsModule': {'leadSponsor': {'name': 'VA Office of Research and Development', 'class': 'FED'}, 'collaborators': [{'name': 'White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center', 'class': 'FED'}], 'responsibleParty': {'type': 'SPONSOR'}}}}