NCT02237573

Impact of Handing to Patients a Copy of the Consultation Report on Their Medicine Consumption

Impact of Handing to Patients With Viral Gastroenteritis or Upper Respiratory Tract Infections a Copy of the Consultation Report on Their Medicine Consumption: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In France, patients with benign viral infections (ie: gastro enteritis and/or rhinopharyngitis, etc.) often receive several prescriptions from their doctors, although there is evidence that these medicines are not efficient. We hypothesize that patients could be reassured by health advices, especially if they are written. In addition, we believe that doctors would feel less guilty for not prescribing drugs if they could hand written consultation reports to patients, in these situations. We aim to assess the impact of handing to patients with viral gastroenteritis or upper respiratory tract infections, a copy of the consultation report on their medicine consumption.

Detailed description

In France, 90% of General practitioners' (GPs) consultations end with prescription of drugs (versus only 43,2% in Netherlands). A french medical thesis published in 2013 showed that drugs prescriptions were not a priority for patients. Rather than medicine's prescription, patients preferred attentive listening associated with personalized advices from their GPs. Several studies also showed that a commercial relationship exists between doctors and patients. The prescription is like an exchange currency against the patient money. We aim to assess the impact of handing to patients with viral gastroenteritis or upper respiratory tract infections, a copy of the consultation report on their medicine consumption.

Conditions

• Viral Gastro Enteritis
• Pharyngitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Written medical report and standardized medical advices	The intervention will include: 1) handing the patient at the end of the consultation a copy of the consultation report which will be composed of: 1. a detailed report of the consultation (motive, case history, clinical examination, conclusion) 2. written standardized medical advices from evidence published in the literature. Interventions will be designed by several general practitioners and tested by few patients.
OTHER	Control	Other: Oral standardized medical advices from evidence published in the literature. Physicians will be trained by a single investigator.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2014-09-11
• Last updated: 2015-06-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France