Evaluating Effectiveness of Educational Intervention to Help Physicians Address Inappropriate Patient Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Prescription Medications

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Lumbosacral Muscle Strain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether physicians can be educated to better handle inappropriate requests from patients for direct-to-consumer advertised prescription medications.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00915291

Run by

American Medical Association

People needed

133

Starts

2007-05-01

Expected to finish

2008-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-06-08

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Resident physicians in internal medicine or family medicine specialties at participating study sites

You may not qualify if…

• Completed less than 10 months of residency

Where it is running

• Stanford University School of Medicine — Stanford, California, United States
• Creighton University School of Medicine — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Texas at Houston Medical School — Houston, Texas, United States

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