Study Results
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
293 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2009-01-31
2014-09-30
Brief Summary
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This study addresses what policy analysts argue is one of the most pivotal problems in the translation of evidence-based care to 'real world' settings: whether purchasers can be influenced to buy health care products on the basis of value rather than cost. In the likely event that EB \> UC, the study will provide encouragement to use an evidence-based approach to market new health care products to private payers on the basis of the product's clinical and organizational value. UC may achieve comparable outcomes to EB if the limiting factors in benefit purchasing are organizational, purchasing group and vendor constraints that no intervention can meaningfully modify. Support for this scenario would encourage the targeted marketing of new products to coalition members with empirically identified organizational, purchasing group and vendor characteristics, using usual care strategies.
Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Depression Product Detailing
Employers receive education on how to purchase high quality depression management products to improve the quality of depression treatment depressed employees receive. Materials delivered in this arm of the study are available at www.caremanagementfordepression.org
Depression Product Detailing
1. two hour academic detailing of depression management products to employees with responsibility for purchasing health care benefits
2. technical assistance in purchasing high quality depression management products
Depression HEDIS Detailing
Employers receive education on how to obtain and use HEDIS depression indicators to encourage health plans to improve the quality of depression treatment depressed employees receive
Depression HEDIS detailing
1. academic detailing to employees responsible for purchasing health care benefits on how to use HEDIS indicators for depression to assure their depressed employees receive high quality care for the condition
2. technical assistance
Interventions
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Depression Product Detailing
1. two hour academic detailing of depression management products to employees with responsibility for purchasing health care benefits
2. technical assistance in purchasing high quality depression management products
Depression HEDIS detailing
1. academic detailing to employees responsible for purchasing health care benefits on how to use HEDIS indicators for depression to assure their depressed employees receive high quality care for the condition
2. technical assistance
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* they have 30+ employer purchasers/affiliates as members
* they act as more than purchasing agents
* (3)they did not participate in the research team's preliminary studies on this topic.
* Employers of participating coalitions are eligible if:
* they are a public or private organization providing health care benefits to 100+ domestic employees
* they have not purchased a depression management product in the past two years.
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Colorado Business Group on Health
OTHER
University of South Florida
OTHER
Florida State University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Kathryn Rost, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Florida State University, College of Medicine
Locations
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Colorado Business Group on Health
Denver, Colorado, United States
Countries
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References
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Rost KM, Meng H, Xu S. Work productivity loss from depression: evidence from an employer survey. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 Dec 18;14:597. doi: 10.1186/s12913-014-0597-y.
Rost KM, Marshall D, Xu S. Intervention impact on depression product appraisal and purchasing behavior by employers: a randomized trial. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 Sep 24;14:426. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-426.
Related Links
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materials for academic detailing of depression management products
Other Identifiers
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