None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
General practitioners enrolled in the trial will be randomised to either the "intervention" or the "control" group. The intervention group general practitioners will then be sent reports of their chlamydia screening and test positivity data, that compare their performance to the relevant guidelines and to their peers. The sub-project will then monitor and compare testing rates and patterns between the intervention and control groups over the next six months
Interventions
Testing report containing information of chlamydia screening coverage and positivity rates, associated demographic breakdowns, comparison to clinic-wide and trial-wide averages in the April 2014 to March 2015 12 month period. Report also shows testing rates change for the two years prior, as well as relevant information about screening guidelines and appropriate management. The report is sent once, by regular mail. The data for these reports are sourced from all consultations by a non-locum doct
Testing report containing information of chlamydia screening coverage and positivity rates, associated demographic breakdowns, comparison to clinic-wide and trial-wide averages in the April 2014 to March 2015 12 month period. Report also shows testing rates change for the two years prior, as well as relevant information about screening guidelines and appropriate management. The report is sent once, by regular mail. The data for these reports are sourced from all consultations by a non-locum doctor at an ACCESS PHC (The Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Blood Borne Viruses (BBVs) Primary Health Clinic network) site ,excluding Gay and Bisexual Men subnetwork practices, and Family Planning practices. This report is prepared by a member of the ACCESS PHC research team.
Sponsors
Burnet Institute
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
General practitioner practicing at clinic enrolled in the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance Primary Health Clinic (ACCESS PHC) network, having seen at least 1 patient in the 15-29 age range over April 2014-March 2015
Exclusion criteria
locum doctors, family planning site, site designated as high gay and bisexual men (GBM) caseload clinic by ACCESS PHC
Outcome results
None listed