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Shared Responsibility Between General Practitioners and Highly Specialized Hospitals in Spinal Cord Injury

NCT04071938 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 273

Last updated 2021-01-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

It is an interventional study that aims to assess a new primary care model of collaboration between specialized centers and primary care physicians in Switzerland, in order to reduce morbidity and improve patients' and providers' experience with delivery of follow-up care in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury as compared to current best practice.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

OTHER

Teaching to GPs

Educational modules on bladder, bowel and skin-care, and pain management will be provided to participating GPs by Spinal Cord Injury specialists

OTHER

Site visits to GP practices

Visits by specialized nurses to the participating GPs at their practices to support the establishment of specialized care on-site

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Schweizer Paraplegiker Forschung

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Armin Gemperli, PhD · Schweizer Paraplegiker Forschung

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-01
Primary Completion
2022-10-01
Completion
2022-10-01

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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