Impact of information leaflets on behavior of patients with gastroenteritis or tonsillitis: a cluster randomized trial in French primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of four patient information leaflets on patients' behavior in primary care.

Design

Cluster randomized multicenter controlled trial between November 2009 and January 2011.

Participants

French adults and children consulting a participating primary care physician and diagnosed with gastroenteritis or tonsillitis. Patients were randomized to receive patient information leaflets or not, according to the cluster randomization of their primary care physician.

Intervention

Adult patients or adults accompanying a child diagnosed with gastroenteritis or tonsillitis were informed of the study. Physicians in the intervention group gave patients an information leaflet about their condition. Two weeks after the consultation patients (or their a

SUBMITTER: Sustersic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3539030 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature