Reducing musculoskeletal diagnostic imaging by high requesting Australian general practitioners using feedback: a cluster randomised controlled trial using a factorial design

Australian Government Department of Health0 个研究点目标入组 3,819 人开始时间: 2019年10月31日最近更新: 2022年6月27日

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•General practitioners (GPs) practising in Australia, who are in the top 20% of GP requesters for 11 targeted musculoskeletal diagnostic imaging services and in the top 20% of requesters for at least 4 individual items. Targeted diagnostic imaging are: 1) Low back CT, 2) Low back x-ray, 3) Neck CT, 4) Neck x-ray, 5) Neck MRI, 6) Shoulder x-ray, 7) Shoulder ultrasound, 8) Hip x-ray, 9) Hip ultrasound, 10) Knee x-ray, 11) Ankle/hind foot ultrasound. Only diagnostic imaging requests that lead to a service being rendered by a radiologist and for which a Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) claim is made are in scope.

•1. GPs with <1000 Category 1 services .
•2. GPs who did not make any in-scope diagnostic imaging requests within the nominated 12-month period (1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018).
•3. GPs who participated in user testing of the intervention
•4. GPs who are currently or have been involved in a Department of Health compliance activity within the past 12 months.

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Australian Government Department of Health