Completed
NCT Number: NCT02994004
Exploring Medical Decisions Using Functional MRI
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.
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Conditions
Age range
25 year–70 year
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Observational
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
- Hospital physicians
- working in the CHU of Montpellier
Exclusion criteria
- Contra indication to f-MRI
Treatment and study plan
Primary outcomes
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Brain activation patterns measured by Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Time frame: up to study completion, usually 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes
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Level of role conflict, measured by the Kahn questionnaire (Kahn et al., 1964)
Time frame: up tu study completion, usually 2 weeks
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Montpellier
Other
Registry information
Official study title
Medical Decision-making Under Budgetary Constraint: an fMRI Study
Important dates
- Study start
- 2013
- Primary completion
- 2014
- Study completion
- 2015
- First posted
- Dec 15, 2016
- Registry last updated
- Dec 15, 2016
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