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Effect of Strategies to Improve General Practitioner-nurse Collaboration and Communication

NCT03426475 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 680

Last updated 2022-07-14

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Summary

Previously,six measures were developed for a better collaboration of general practitioners and nurses in nursing homes in a qualitative multistep bottom-up process. These measures, summarised as the interprof ACT intervention, shall improve the flow of information and the communication between the involved parties and lead to more transparency and effectiveness regarding treatment decisions of nursing home residents.The major aim of this trial is to examine the clinical effectiveness of interprof ACT. The main hypothesis is that implementation of interprof ACT reduces the cumulative incidence of hospitalisations of nursing home residents within 12 months from 50% to 35% (15% absolute reduction).

Conditions

  • Utilization of Medical Care by Nursing Home Residents

Interventions

PROCEDURE

interprof ACT measures

Definition of common goals between general practitioner and nursing staff, appointment of a contact person, support in assigning medication, use of name badges worn by GPs and nurses during visits, mandatory availability of contact person, standardized procedures for GPs home visits

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Medical Center Goettingen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eva Hummers, Prof. Dr. med. · Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Goettingen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-12
Primary Completion
2020-06-12
Completion
2021-04-22

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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