Study Design and Participants
Respiratory Infections
RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
The Use of Behavioral Economics and Social Psychology to Improve Treatment of Acute Respiratory Infections Trial was a multisite, cluster randomized trial with practice as the unit of randomization.A total of 248 participants (practicing attending clinicians or advanced practice nurses) were enrolled from 47 participating outpatient clinic sites in Boston, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California. Prescribing data from electronic medical records for participating practices were transferred to the data coordinating center on a weekly basis. Data on race/ethnicity were not collected. Surveys were administered using Qualtrics, version XM (Qualtrics); up to 3 survey reminders were sent by email.