Physicians' Preferences for Active-controlled versus Placebo-controlled Trials of New Antihypertensive Drugs
dc.contributor.author | Halpern, Scott D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ubel, Peter A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Berlin, Jesse A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Townsend, Raymond R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Asch, David A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T20:10:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T20:10:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Halpern, Scott D.; Ubel, Peter A.; Berlin, Jesse A.; Townsend, Raymond R.; Asch, David A. (2002). "Physicians' Preferences for Active-controlled versus Placebo-controlled Trials of New Antihypertensive Drugs." Journal of General Internal Medicine 17(9): 689-695. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73302> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0884-8734 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1525-1497 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73302 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12220365&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | To evaluate physicians' preferences for referring patients to, and using information from, active-controlled trials (ACTs) versus placebo-controlled trials (PCTs) of new antihypertensive drugs. DESIGN AND SETTING Nationwide mailed survey, with telephone contact of nonresponders to assess nonresponse bias. PARTICIPANTS: One thousand two hundred primary care physicians randomly selected from the American Medical Association's Master File. Of 1,154 physicians eligible to respond, 651 (56.4%) returned completed questionnaires. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We measured physicians' stated willingness to encourage hypertensive patients to enroll in ACTs and PCTs of new antihypertensive drugs, their views of the relative merits of ACTs versus PCTs, their stated willingness to prescribe new drugs tested in ACTs or PCTs, and their views regarding the overall justifiability of the 2 designs. Physicians were significantly more likely to indicate they would encourage their patients to enroll in ACTs than in PCTs ( P < .0001). Physicians thought ACTs provided more valuable information for their practices, were more likely to lead to a public health benefit, offered enrolled patients greater opportunity for personal benefit, and were less likely to expose enrolled patients to unnecessary risks (all P < .0001). Physicians were more likely to prescribe new drugs that had been compared in ACTs ( P < .0001), and viewed ACTs as a more justifiable method for testing new antihypertensive drugs ( P < .0001). There was no evidence of nonresponse bias for these main results. CONCLUSIONS: Although PCTs remain the standard method for testing new antihypertensive drugs, physicians strongly prefer ACTs. Using ACTs to test new antihypertensive drugs may enhance the efficiency of patient recruitment and more strongly influence physicians' prescribing practices. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Science Inc | en_US |
dc.rights | 2002 by the Society of General Internal Medicine | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Trials | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Placebo-controlled Trials | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Antihypertensive Drugs | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Physicians' Preferences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ethics | en_US |
dc.title | Physicians' Preferences for Active-controlled versus Placebo-controlled Trials of New Antihypertensive Drugs | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Internal Medicine and Specialties | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Received from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (SDH, JAB, DAA), Center for Bioethics (SDH, DAA), Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (SDH, JAB), Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (PAU, DAA), Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (RRT), and the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pa (DAA); Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center (PAU), Division of General Internal Medicine (PAU), University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich. | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 12220365 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73302/1/j.1525-1497.2002.11024.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2002.11024.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of General Internal Medicine | en_US |
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