Efficacy of Monetary Incentives for Primary Care Physicians on Patients (COFRASAanc)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Recruitment

Treatments: Other: monetary incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00674037

P051042

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients' recruitment is difficult in clinical trial. Financial incentives are frequently proposed to clinicians in private funded trials. However, the effect of these financial incentives has never been evaluated.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of financial incentive on the rate of recruitment of patients in a cohort study.

Full description

Context: Patients' recruitment is difficult in clinical trials. Financial incentives are frequently proposed to clinicians in private funded trials. However, the effect of these financial incentives has never been evaluated.

Objective: to evaluate the effect of financial incentive on the rate of recruitment of patients in a cohort study.

Design: randomized controlled trial Setting: primary care Participants: physicians (GP and cardiologists) participating in the recruitment of patients in a cohort study (the COFRASA study). The COFRASA cohort study is including aortic stenosis aging patient.

Intervention:75 euros for each patient included Main outcome: percentage of physician including at least one patient at 3 months Secondary outcome: mean number of patients included at 6 months. Sample size 270 physicians

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physicians participating in the COFRASA cohort study
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

170 participants in 2 patient groups

inclusion with financial motivation

Experimental group

Description:

75 euros for each patient included

Treatment:

Other: monetary incentive

no incentive

No Intervention group

Description:

no incentive