Table 3 Timing and content of study assessments.
Identifying eligible clinicians |
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Trial registration: self completed online |
Baseline data |
Pre-trial survey: self completed online |
Prescription data from previous 12 months: electronic extraction |
Clinician follow-up procedures |
Primary outcome measures: Computer log and electronic prescription data at 6 and12 months |
   • Physician acceptability focusing on ease of use and usefulness (post-trial survey) and patterns of QC use (computer logs) |
   • Prescribing patterns in clinical priority areas identified at the start of the study |
   • Prescribing patterns in response to new evidence of the effectiveness of new or existing treatments |
   • Patterns of non-pharmacological clinical management |
Secondary outcome measures: self-reported in online post-trial survey at 12 months |
   • Referral patterns |
   • Management decisions |
   • Number, timing and types of investigations |