Training family physicians and residents in family medicine in shared decision making to improve clinical decisions regarding the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections: protocol for a clustered randomized controlled trial

BMC Family Practice

Study Protocol

Jeremy Grimshaw¹  Josette Castel²  Isabelle Tremblay²  Michel Cauchon²  Kathleen Lemieux²  Caroline Rhéaume²  Pierre Frémont²  Gaston Godin³  Claudine Laurier⁴  Annie LeBlanc⁵  France Légaré⁶  Michel Labrecque⁶ 

[1] Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Civic Campus, K1Y 4E9, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, PavillonVandry, Cité Universitaire, G1K 7P4, Québec, QC, Canada;Faculty of Nursing, Université Laval, PavillonVandry, Cité Universitaire, G1K 7P4, Québec, QC, Canada;Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, H3T 1J4, Montréal, QC, Canada;Knowledge and Encounter Unit, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, 55905, Rochester, MN, USA;Research Center of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Hospital St-François D'Assise, Knowledge Transfer and Health Technology Assessment Research Group, 10 Espinay, G1L 3L5, Québec, QC, Canada;Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, PavillonVandry, Cité Universitaire, G1K 7P4, Québec, QC, Canada;

关键词: Acute Otitis Medium;    Shared Decision Making;    Acute Respiratory Infection;    Clinical Encounter;    Data Collection Period;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2296-12-3

 received in 2010-12-07, accepted in 2011-01-26,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundTo explore ways to reduce the overuse of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections (ARIs), we conducted a pilot clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate DECISION+, a training program in shared decision making (SDM) for family physicians (FPs). This pilot project demonstrated the feasibility of conducting a large clustered RCT and showed that DECISION+ reduced the proportion of patients who decided to use antibiotics immediately after consulting their physician. Consequently, the objective of this study is to evaluate, in patients consulting for ARIs, if exposure of physicians to a modified version of DECISION+, DECISION+2, would reduce the proportion of patients who decide to use antibiotics immediately after consulting their physician.Methods/designThe study is a multi-center, two-arm, parallel clustered RCT. The 12 family practice teaching units (FPTUs) in the network of the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine of Université Laval will be randomized to a DECISION+2 intervention group (experimental group) or to a no-intervention control group. These FPTUs will recruit patients consulting family physicians and residents in family medicine enrolled in the study. There will be two data collection periods: pre-intervention (baseline) including 175 patients with ARIs in each study arm, and post-intervention including 175 patients with ARIs in each study arm (total n = 700). The primary outcome will be the proportion of patients reporting a decision to use antibiotics immediately after consulting their physician. Secondary outcome measures include: 1) physicians and patients' decisional conflict; 2) the agreement between the parties' decisional conflict scores; and 3) perception of patients and physicians that SDM occurred. Also in patients, at 2 weeks follow-up, adherence to the decision, consultation for the same reason, decisional regret, and quality of life will be assessed. Finally, in both patients and physicians, intention to engage in SDM in future clinical encounters will be assessed. Intention-to-treat analyses will be applied and account for the nested design of the trial will be taken into consideration.DiscussionDECISION+2 has the potential to reduce antibiotics use for ARIs by priming physicians and patients to share decisional process and empowering patients to make informed, value-based decisions.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01116076

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