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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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