User Charges for General Practitioner Services in Denmark | NCT01784731

Studies
User Charges for General Practitioner Services in Denmark

NCT01784731

Sponsor

University of Southern Denmark

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Mar 12, 2013Estimated

Enrollment

400Actual

Phase

Not provided

Conditions

Consequences of User Charges

Interventions

Willingness to pay

Countries

Denmark

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Annotation Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Document Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Mar 2013

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Mar 2013

Primary Completion Date

Mar 2013Actual

Completion Date

Mar 2013Actual

First Submitted Date

Feb 4, 2013

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Feb 5, 2013

First Posted Date

Feb 6, 2013Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

Not provided

Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Posted Date

Not provided

Last Update Submitted Date

Mar 11, 2013

Last Update Posted Date

Mar 12, 2013Estimated

Sponsor/Collaborators Module

Responsible Party, by Official Title

Christian Kronborg, Associate professor, University of Southern DenmarkPrincipal Investigator

Lead Sponsor

University of Southern DenmarkOTHER

Collaborators

Not provided

Oversight Module

Has Data Monitoring Committee (DMC)

Is FDA Regulated Drug

Not provided

Is FDA Regulated Device

Not provided

Is Unapproved Device

Not provided

Pediatric Postmarket Surveillance of a Device Product

Not provided

Product Exported from US

Not provided

FDAAA801 Violation

Not provided

Description Module

Brief Summary

Currently, office visits at general practitioners is free of charge for patients. However, public commissions and the Danish Economic Council have suggested to implement user charges for services that currently is free of charge. The aim of this study is to examine the consequences of introducing user charges for general practitioner services. Data for the project will be collected from patients who have an appointment with a general practitioner. Patients will be asked whether they are willing to pay a specified amount for the consultation that they have scheduled. After the consultation, the GP register diagnoses.

Detailed Description

Not provided

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Not provided

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Not provided

Intervention Model

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

400Actual

Label	Type	Description	Intervention Names
Patients			Behavioral: Willingness to pay

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Willingness to pay	Behavioral		Patients

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Willingness to pay	Whether a patient accept a specified amount for a GP consultation	once

Secondary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Diagnoses	Diagnoses according to the Danish version of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC9	Once

Other Outcomes

Not provided

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients with an appointment for a visit in a general practitioner clinic
Reads and understand Danish

Exclusion Criteria:

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

Not provided

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

ChildAdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Patients enrolled with a general practitioner clinic

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Not provided

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Lægerne Nyenstad		Nyborg		5800	Denmark

References Module

Citations

PubMed Identifier	Type	Citation	Retractions
28364368	Derived	Kronborg C, Pedersen LB, Fournaise A, Kronborg CN. User Fees in General Practice: Willingness to Pay and Potential Substitution Patterns-Results from a Danish GP Patient Survey. Appl Health Econ Health Policy. 2017 Oct;15(5):615-624. doi: 10.1007/s40258-017-0325-y.