Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Mr Elmer V Villanueva
ORCID ID
Contact details
Deputy Director
Health Technology Assessment Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
Monash Institute of Health Services Research
246 Clayton Road
Clayton
Victoria
3168
Australia
+61 (0)3 9594 7505
Elmer.Villanueva@med.monash.edu.au
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
The study sought to determine whether adding simple instructions and examples on clinical question formulation would increase the specificity of the question being submitted by the health care professional compared to using a standard form without instructions and examples.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Question formulation by health care professionals
Intervention
New participants were invited to reformulate clinical queries. The control group was given no instructions. The intervention group was given a brief explanation of proper formulation, written instructions, and diagrammatic examples.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
The change in the proportion of reformulated questions that described each the dimensions of specificity.
Secondary outcome measures
The differences in the degree by which a particular dimension was specified.
Overall trial start date
01/07/2000
Overall trial end date
30/06/2001
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Health care professionals affiliated with a tertiary care health care network in Melbourne, Australia
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
39
Participant exclusion criteria
Previous users of the service
Recruitment start date
01/07/2000
Recruitment end date
30/06/2001
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Australia
Trial participating centre
Deputy Director
Victoria
3168
Australia
Sponsor information
Organisation
Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (Australia)
Sponsor details
Monash Institute of Health Services Research
246 Clayton Road
Clayton
Victoria
3168
Australia
Sponsor type
Research organisation
Website
Funders
Funder type
Not defined
Funder name
Self-funded through internal research funds
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11716797
Publication citations
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Results
Villanueva EV, Burrows EA, Fennessy PA, Rajendran M, Anderson JN, Improving question formulation for use in evidence appraisal in a tertiary care setting: a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN66375463]., BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 2001, 1, 4.