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Feedback Reports and e-Learning in Primary Care Spirometry

NCT00962455 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1135

Last updated 2009-08-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Spirometry is a biomedical test to measure lung function in subject who (may) have a chronic respiratory condition. Performing the test requires a certain level of training and experience from the health care professional who conducts the test, and sufficient cooperation of the patient. Although the test is widely used in primary care in many countries, the quality of the test performance seems limited and needs improvement in order to avoid false-positive and false-negative test interpretations. In this study, the researchers investigated whether a combination of e-learning and bimonthly written performance feedback to family practice nurses and assistance regarding their spirometry tests improves the rate of adequate tests.

Conditions

  • Respiratory Tract Diseases
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
  • Asthma

Interventions

OTHER

e-learning & performance feedback

Initial e-learning by studying CD-Rom 'Spirometry Fundamentals', followed by repeated periodic performance feedback on spirometry test quality

OTHER

usual practice

Usual practice regarding spirometry execution in family practice

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Quartz Transmural Centre for the Helmond Region

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Elkerliek Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tjard R Schermer, PhD · Radboud University Medical Center

  • Alan J Crockett, PhD · The University of Adelaide

  • Willem Pieters, MD, PhD · Elkerliek Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-11-30
Completion
2009-04-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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