NCT02006017

Do Clinicians Want Recommendations?

Completed NA Last updated 1 September 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Evidence summary alone plus a recommendation in Healthy Individuals (Clinicians) in 467 participants. Completed in 30 August 2017.

Timeline

30 September 2013

Primary endpoint
30 August 2017

30 August 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	McMaster University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	467
Start date	30 September 2013
Primary completion	30 August 2017
Estimated completion	30 August 2017
Sites	1 location across Canada

Drugs / interventions tested

• Evidence summary alone plus a recommendation
• Evidence summary alone

Conditions studied

• Healthy Individuals (Clinicians) — all drugs for Healthy Individuals (Clinicians) →

Sponsor

McMaster University

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Healthy Individuals (Clinicians). Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Do clinicians want recommendations? A multicenter study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE recommendations.
   Neumann I, Alonso-Coello P, Vandvik PO, Agoritsas T, et al · · 2018 · cited 20× · PMID 29530644 · DOI 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.02.026