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

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Conditions studied: Graduate Medical Education, Cost-Effectiveness

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01303263

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

96

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2011-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-06-22

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Internal Medicine Residents on Inpatient Rotations at Brigham \& Women's Hospital

You may not qualify if…

• Having a team member who was in either the control group or intervention group in a prior round of this study.

Where it is running

• Brigham & Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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