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A Practical Model to Transform Childhood Asthma Care - Spirometry Training in the Primary Care Setting

NCT01161433 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2010-07-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Spirometry is a recommended component of asthma diagnosis and treatment in the primary care setting, however, few primary care providers report routine use of spirometry in the provision of care for their asthma patients. Even when spirometry is used to aid in asthma severity classification, primary care providers have a high rate of failing to meet the quality goals for testing established by the American Thoracic Society.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtually delivered quality improvement (QI) program. The program is designed to train primary care providers and their medical staff in the use of spirometry to improve pediatric primary care management for children with asthma.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtually delivered spirometry quality improvement program

Sites in the intervention arm receive the virtually delivered QI program. The program includes: 1. Spirometry Fundamentals™ CD-ROM, a computer-based CD-ROM training program that teaches primary care providers and their staff techniques required to perform high-quality spirometry tests, and proper interpretation of spirometric data; 2. Case-based, interactive webinars; and 3. an Internet-based spirometry quality feedback reporting system.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • James W Stout, MD, MPH · University of Washington

  • Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH · University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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