Efficacy of Monetary Incentives for Primary Care Physicians on Patients - Full Text View

Purpose

Patients' recruitment is difficult in clinical trial. Financial incentives are frequently proposed to clinicians in private funded trials. However, the effect of these financial incentives has never been evaluated.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of financial incentive on the rate of recruitment of patients in a cohort study.

Condition	Intervention
Patient Recruitment	Other: monetary incentive

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Other, Randomized, Single Blind (Subject), Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Official Title:	Efficacy of Monetary Incentives for Primary Care Physicians on Patients' Recruitment

Further study details as provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:

Primary Outcome Measures:

number of patient included [ Time Frame: 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

number of patient included [ Time Frame: 6 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	270
Study Start Date:	January 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date:	September 2009
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	September 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1: Experimental 75 euros for each patient included	Other: monetary incentive 75 euros for each patient included
2: No Intervention no incentive

Detailed Description:

Context: Patients' recruitment is difficult in clinical trials. Financial incentives are frequently proposed to clinicians in private funded trials. However, the effect of these financial incentives has never been evaluated.

Objective: to evaluate the effect of financial incentive on the rate of recruitment of patients in a cohort study.

Design: randomized controlled trial Setting: primary care Participants: physicians (GP and cardiologists) participating in the recruitment of patients in a cohort study (the COFRASA study). The COFRASA cohort study is including aortic stenosis aging patient.

Intervention:75 euros for each patient included Main outcome: percentage of physician including at least one patient at 3 months Secondary outcome: mean number of patients included at 6 months. Sample size 270 physicians

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Physicians participating in the COFRASA cohort study
informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- None

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00674037

Contacts


Contact: Isabelle BOUTRON, Dr	+33 (0)1 40 25 79 43	isabelle.boutron@bch.aphp.fr

Locations


France
	Groupe hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard	Recruiting
	Paris, France, 75018
	Contact: Boutron Isabelle, Dr 01 40 25 79 43 ext 33 (0) isabelle.boutron@bch.aphp.fr

Sponsors and Collaborators

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Isabelle BOUTRON, MD	Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

More Information

Responsible Party:	Hospital BICHAT ( Isabelle BOUTRON )
Study ID Numbers:	P051042
First Received:	April 9, 2008
Last Updated:	May 26, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00674037
Health Authority:	France: Ministry of Health

Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:

recruitment

physicians participating in the recruitment of patients

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 23, 2008

Sponsored by:	Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Information provided by:	Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00674037