Table 3

Timing and content of study assessments.

Identifying eligible clinicians
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

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