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Clinical trialNCT02015455CompletedInterventional

Trial of Inserting Prevalence Information Into Lumbar Spine Imaging Reports

SponsorUniversity of WashingtonEnrollment250,401Back PainBackacheLow Back PainLumbar Pain
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The overall goal of the Lumbar Image Reporting with Epidemiology (LIRE) is to perform a large, pragmatic, cluster randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of a simple, inexpensive and easy to deploy intervention - insertion of epidemiological benchmarks into lumbar spine imaging reports - at reducing subsequent tests and treatments. The investigator's main hypothesis is that for patients referred from primary care providers, inserting epidemiological evidence in lumbar spine imaging reports will reduce subsequent diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, including cross-sectional imaging (MR/CT), opioid prescriptions, spinal injections and surgery.
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Investigators

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Sites

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

United States
  • Kaiser Permanente of Northern California

    Oakland, California, United States

  • Henry Ford Health System

    Detroit, Michigan, United States

  • Mayo Clinic Health Systems

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

  • Group Health Cooperative

    Seattle, Washington, 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
1 Oct 2013
Primary completion
14 Dec 2018
Completion
14 Dec 2018
Last update posted
14 Feb 2022
Registered enrollment
250,401
Registry id
NCT02015455
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.