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European Quality of Care Pathways Study on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

NCT00962468 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 342

Last updated 2017-10-13

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Summary

Care pathways, a complex intervention to (re)organise, standardize and evaluate care processes, are used worldwide and in different kinds of settings. Although their international use, the impact is unclear. The European Quality of Care Pathways Study is the first international cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on the effect of care pathways for COPD patients.

The hypothesis is that teams who work with care pathways for COPD patients deliver care that is more compliant to evidence based key interventions, have better patient outcomes and higher scores on team indicators than teams who do not work with care pathways.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

OTHER

COPD evidence based care pathway

A care pathways, as complex intervention, will be implemented.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • KU Leuven

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Eastern Piedmont

    collaborator OTHER

  • European Pathway Association

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kris Vanhaecht, PhD · KU Leuven

  • Walter Sermeus, PhD · KU Leuven

  • Massimiliano Panella, PhD · Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piemont

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2016-07-31

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