Watchful Waiting as a Strategy for Reducing Low-value Spinal Imaging
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Brief summary
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The investigators will learn from the study whether actors playing the roles of patients (standardized patients) can help primary care and urgent care clinicians develop skill in offering watchful waiting to patients with acute low back pain as a means of averting low-value spinal imaging. Using patient and physician feedback, this study will refine and evaluate -- in a controlled experiment -- a simulated standardized patient intervention to enhance primary care physician use of watchful waiting when patients request low-value spinal imaging. The long-term goal of this study is to discover communication strategies primary care physicians can use to avert costly, potentially harmful testing while maintaining the patient-doctor relationship.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04255199
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 67 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 21, 2020 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2023 (Actual)
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2024 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Dec 10, 2024
2020 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research | Sacramento | California | 95817 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 10, 2024 · Synced Oct 20, 2026
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