Exploring Medical Decisions Using Functional MRI

Completed

• Conditions: F-MRI Brain Imaging Data

• Registration Number: NCT02994004
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier

Brief Summary

Hospital physicians are increasingly facing budgetary constraints that might have an impact on individual medical decisions (i.e. diagnostic or therapeutic decisions). This might translate into role conflict and ambiguity. We explore the medical decision-makingprocess of physicians usingfunctional MRI. Twenty hospital physicians will be asked to make simulated medical decisions during fMRI acquisitions, with and without explicit budgetary constraints. We will compare the fMRI data between the 2 modalities.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Status Verified: 2014-07
• Primary Completion: 2014-07
• Study Completion: 2015-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-12-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-13
• Study First Posted: 2016-12-15
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 34

Inclusion Criteria

• Hospital physicians
• working in the CHU of Montpellier

Exclusion Criteria

• Contra indication to f-MRI

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Brain activation patterns measured by Functional magnetic resonance imaging	up to study completion, usually 2 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Level of role conflict, measured by the Kahn questionnaire (Kahn et al., 1964)	up tu study completion, usually 2 weeks