Evaluation of a prescription support-tool for chronic management of oral antithrombotic combinations in adults using clinical vignettes: protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Improving the appropriateness of prescriptions of oral antithrombotic (AT) drugs, especially AT combinations, is crucial because these drugs are implicated in bleeding events. We developed a prescription support-tool synthesising guidelines on chronic management of oral AT combinations. Our main objective is to assess the impact of this tool on improving the prescription of oral ATs to comply with guidelines.

Methods and analysis

A randomised controlled trial will be conducted among French general practitioners and cardiologists involved in outpatient settings. Physicians will be invited to participate to an online survey by email via physician associations, social networks or word of mouth. They will be randomised to two arms: the experimental arm (access to th

SUBMITTER: Zerah L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561457 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature