The impact of removing financial incentives and/or audit and feedback on preventive care activities in general practice: A cluster randomised controlled trial (ACCEPt-able)
- Conditions
- chlamydiaInfection - Sexually transmitted infectionsPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12614000595617
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Melbourne
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
General Practitioners and Practice nurses who work in a general practice that has been participating in the intervention group of ACCEPt are eligible to participate.
ACCEPt is a cluster RCT of a chlamydia testing intervention. We propose to re-randomised intervention clinics at the conclusion of the trial to evaluate the importance of incentive payments and audit+feedback. The ACCEPt protocol has been accepted as a Lancet published protocol: Hocking JS, Low N, Guy R, Law M, Donovan B, Kaldor J, Temple-Smith M, Gunn J, Fairley CK. 12 PRT 09010: Australian Chlamydia Control Effectiveness Pilot (ACCEPt): a cluster randomised controlled trial of chlamydia testing in general practice (ACTRN1260000297022) Lancet protocol. Published May 2013.
ACCEPt has been registered on the ANZCTR - 1260000297022.
No exclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Chlamydia testing proportion: Numerator = total number of unique individuals aged 16 to 29 years who have had at least one test in the last 12 months. Denominator = total number of unique individuals who have had a consultation with a participating GP at least once in the last 12 months.[24 months]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Acceptability of incentives and/or audit+feedback for chlamydia testing in general practice. This will be assessed by semi-structured interviews with GPs.[24 months]