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Practical Health Co-operation - The Impact of a Referral Template on Quality of Health Care

NCT01470963 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2014-07-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the implementation of a referral template will increase quality of health care delivered and the quality of health care co-operation. The investigators intent to implement a referral template, at the level of the general practitioner (GP), for the referral of patients within 4 separate diagnostic groups:

* dyspepsia/upper GI symptoms
* colonic cancer investigation/lower GI symptoms
* chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
* chest pain

Local GP clinics will be randomised to use the referral template or to use standard referral practice. Using a predefined set of quality criteria the investigators will score the process of care in each patient, and compare intervention and control groups. In addition other criteria will be collected and compared between the two groups, e.g.

* time to diagnosis/treatment
* quality of referral
* more appropriate referrals
* patient satisfaction (as measured by a questionnaire)

The investigators hypothesize that the implementation of a referral template will lead to a measurable increase in the quality of health care delivered.

Conditions

  • Referral
  • Quality of Health Care

Interventions

OTHER

Implementation of referral template

Implementation of referral template at the GP office

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Tromso

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital of North Norway

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, Dr. med · University Hospital of North Norway

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2014-01-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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