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The Effect of Substitution of Out-of-hours Care From General Practitioners to Nurse Practitioners

NCT02407847 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 9647

Last updated 2016-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to explore the effects of substitution in out-of-hours primary care. In consecutive stages an extra General Practitioner (GP) is substituted by a Nurse Practitioner (NP) aiming at replacing 3 out of 4 GPs by NPs. Effects are measured in terms of feasibility and cost-efficiency.

Conditions

  • Out-of-hours Care Services
  • Primary Healthcare

Interventions

OTHER

care provided by Nurse Practitioners

Patients will receive care at the Primary Out of Hours Emergency Service by a Nurse Practitioner instead of a General Practitioner (substitution of care from physicians to nurses).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Stichting Kwaliteit en Ontwikkeling Huisartsenzorg

    collaborator OTHER

  • Centrale Huisartsenpost Eindhoven (CHP)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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