Study of Primary Care Physicians' Understanding and Use of Different Survival Measures
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 778
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Number of Physicians (=Participants) Recommending the Screening
研究概览
简要总结
The probably most commonly used measure for expressing the pay-offs of early detection and treatment are survival rates. Yet, over time and groups this metric comes with several biases and thus, is not reliable for judging such benefits. Epidemiologists recommend using reduction of disease-specific mortality rates instead, which is unbiased. The purpose of the study is to investigate how primary care physicians understand and use different survival measures for determining the benefit of cancer screening tests.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Ecologic Or Community
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 30 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •primary care physicians (internal, general, and family medicine physicians)
排除标准
- •all other types of physicians
结局指标
主要结局
Number of Physicians (=Participants) Recommending the Screening
时间窗: 25 minutes (mean duration of the survey)
The aim of the study was to learn how different medical cancer screening statistics would influence doctors' recommendation behavior and their effectiveness judgments of screening tests. For that reason the online survey study presented physicians with four different medical statistics (e.g., 5-year survival) within four successive scenarios and asked after each scenario whether they would recommend the screening to a (hypothetical) patient given the data. Options to answer are: Definitely yes, Probably yes, Probably no, Definitely no, Can't decide.
次要结局
- Number of Physicians (= Participants) Assuming a Benefit of Screening(25 minutes (mean duration of the survey))