Evaluating Patient and Physician Cost Knowledge in the Emergency Department

Completed

• Conditions: Economic Problems

• Registration Number: NCT01883778
• Lead Sponsor: University of Utah

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify existing cost knowledge of Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians and patients and investigates its reported impacts on medical compliance. A cross-sectional survey will be administered electronically to Emergency Medicine physicians at the University of Utah Hospital and the Emergency Physician Integrated Care, LLC (EPIC) who staff ten-community hospital Emergency Departments (ED) in order to investigate physician knowledge and attitudes regarding cost and perceived patient compliance. In addition, a cross-sectional survey will be administered to a convenience sample of patients presenting to the University of Utah Emergency Department to obtain information about their cost knowledge and reported compliance. All ED patients will complete a follow-up phone survey to measure compliance with recommendations made during the ED visits. Following administration of the baseline survey physicians will be provided the prices of the test and procedures and will be re-surveyed 30-days later as a post intervention test to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-06-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-06-18
• Study First Posted: 2013-06-21
• Primary Completion: 2013-08
• Study Completion: 2013-08
• Status Verified: 2016-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-22
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 512

Inclusion Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of emergency medicine physician with accurate (+/- 25% of actual cost) cost knowledge of common medical services; influence on testing and prescribing patterns.	1 year	Measure the extent of formal education regarding cost of medical services that physicians in the survey population have received and how that impacts knowledge and accuracy; perceived impact on medical compliance among patients.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of emergency department patients with accurate (+/- 25% actual costs) knowledge of medical service cost; correlation between health literacy and cost knowledge accuracy in patients.	1 year	Measure patient health literacy using the REALM-SF (AHRQ) and determine any correlation with cost estimation accuracy and reported impact on medical compliance among patients.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Utah; 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States