Exploring Medical Decisions Using Functional MRI

Medical Decision-making Under Budgetary Constraint: an fMRI Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02994004

Enrollment

Registered

2016-12-15

Start date

2013-06-30

Completion date

2015-07-31

Last updated

2016-12-15

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Conditions

F-MRI Brain Imaging Data

Keywords

Hospital, medical decision-making, role conflict, f-MRI

Brief summary

Hospital physicians are increasingly facing budgetary constraints that might have an impact on individual medical decisions (i.e. diagnostic or therapeutic decisions). This might translate into role conflict and ambiguity. We explore the medical decision-makingprocess of physicians usingfunctional MRI. Twenty hospital physicians will be asked to make simulated medical decisions during fMRI acquisitions, with and without explicit budgetary constraints. We will compare the fMRI data between the 2 modalities.

Interventions

OTHERno intervention

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

25 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Hospital physicians * working in the CHU of Montpellier

Exclusion criteria

* Contra indication to f-MRI

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Brain activation patterns measured by Functional magnetic resonance imaging	up to study completion, usually 2 weeks

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Level of role conflict, measured by the Kahn questionnaire (Kahn et al., 1964)	up tu study completion, usually 2 weeks

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026