Brief Report“Better” clinical decisions do not necessarily require more time to make
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Research letter
The Web-based intervention modeling experiment (IME; randomized study in a simulated setting) reported by Treweek et al. [1] provided support for using IME methodology in the evaluation of interventions to improve quality of care. As well as the management decision made, Treweek et al.'s data on general practitioners' (GPs) responses to scenarios describing uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) included a measure of perceived decision difficulty for each decision and the time
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the GPs who took part in the original study, and Marie Pitkethly and Gail Morrison at the Scottish Primary Care Research Network (SPCRN) for their help and support in recruiting GPs. Thanks also to Chris Burton and Fiona Garton at the University of Aberdeen for assistance with scenario coding.
Authors' contributions: All authors contributed to the design of the study. N.M. did most of the day-to-day running of the study, with support from J.J.F., M.K.C., C.R.R.,
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Ethical approval and trial registration: The original study was approved by the Tayside Committee on Medical Research Ethics A, Research Ethics Committee reference 10/S1401/54 and received NHS Research & Development approval from the 12 National Health Service (NHS) Health Boards involved. Permission to access and analyze the data was obtained from the Tayside Research Ethics Committee at the request of the principal investigator of the original study (S.T.). The trial of which the original study is part is registered: ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT01206738.
Funding: The original study was funded by the Chief Scientist Office, grant number CZH/4/610. The analyses reported here were funded by a Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Grant awarded to the first author. The Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, is core funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorates. The funding sources had no role in the study design; the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Conflict of interest: None.
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Current address: Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK.
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Retired.