Clinical trialNCT01303263CompletedInterventional

A Brief Intervention to Improve Cost-effective Resource Use Among Medicine Housestaff

SponsorBrigham and Women's HospitalEnrollment96Cost-EffectivenessGraduate Medical Education

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Summary

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OBJECTIVE: To test a brief intervention designed to improve the cost-effectiveness of care provided by medicine housestaff for hospitalized patients. HYPOTHESIS: A brief intervention in which medicine residents receive itemized bills for recent patients cared for by them, followed by a discussion on approaches to reducing unnecessary inpatient costs, can result in significant cost reductions without adversely affecting patient outcomes.

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Investigators

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Benjamin D Sommers, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Study Director
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David Bates, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Brigham & Women'S Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Sept 2009
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2010
Completion: 28 Feb 2011
Last update posted: 22 Jun 2011
Registered enrollment: 96
Registry id: NCT01303263

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