Exploring Medical Decisions Using Functional MRI

University Hospital, Montpellier34 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

F-MRI Brain Imaging Data

Interventions

no interventionOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 25 YearsMax age: 70 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Hospital physicians * working in the CHU of Montpellier Exclusion Criteria: * Contra indication to f-MRI

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Brain activation patterns measured by Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Time frame: up to study completion, usually 2 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Level of role conflict, measured by the Kahn questionnaire (Kahn et al., 1964)

Time frame: up tu study completion, usually 2 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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