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Strategies to Improve Appropriate Referral to Rheumatologists

NCT03454438 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 544

Last updated 2022-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to improve the number of effectively referred patients with IRD to the rheumatology outpatient clinic with either use of validated referral pro formas or triage of IRD by specialists in a primary care setting compared to usual care. In addition, the investigators want to provide tools for the general practitioner to recognise IRD and improve early referral of patients with IRD, and a cost-effectiveness analysis will be performed to evaluate the decreasing effect on health-care cost.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Referral strategies

Two referral strategies will be compared to usual care, i.e. the control group. Patients will be followed for one year.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Maasstad Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Angelique Weel-Koenders · Maasstad Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-28
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2021-08-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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