Abstract:
:This study evaluated the influence of a desk-top analyser, used in general practice, on the mean number of blood tests per contact, prescribed or analysed by general practitioners. A randomized controlled trial was used. The mean number of blood tests per contact requested by two groups of GPs, before and after the introduction of a Reflotron in the intervention group was compared. Practitioners were assigned to the control group or to the intervention group by stratified randomization. Flemish GPs, known by the Flemish Institute of General Practice as interested in research were enrolled into the study. There were two registration periods of 8 weeks each. The weekly number of doctor-patient contacts and all requested or performed blood tests for each patient were registered. During the second period the members of the intervention group were asked to use the Reflotron, following their own judgement, and to register the total number of tests per contact, performed with it, on a special form. In the Reflotron group there was a slight increase in the median of the relative differences between the intervention and the base-line period (3%). In the control group the median of the relative differences decreased (-7%). The difference between both groups was not statistically significant (P = 0.17). In both groups the size and direction of the relative differences of the individual practices were very different. No statistically significant differences were found in any of the subgroups.
journal_name
Fam Practjournal_title
Family practiceauthors
Gilio C,Buntinx F,De Kezel O,Scheys Idoi
10.1093/fampra/10.2.118subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-06-01 00:00:00pages
118-23issue
2eissn
0263-2136issn
1460-2229journal_volume
10pub_type
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