An interventional study of Outreach visits in Chronic Disease, sponsored by Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen. Completed at 2 sites in Denmark. Open to participants aged 30 Years to 70 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-05-23.
Sponsored by Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The aim of this project is to motivate and support general practice clinics in implementing the visions and recommendations presented in two of the disease specific programmes for chronic care management (for chronic obstructive lung disease and Type 2 diabetes). These programmes describe evidence based treatment and division of tasks between the municipalities, the hospitals and general practice.
The Facilitator Project is funded by The Danish Ministry of Interior and Health.
In a cluster randomized trial the investigators will explore the efficacy of up to three outreach visits by specially trained GPs. Efficacy data are obtained by means of questionnaires at regional databases.
990 studies on the registry are indexed under Chronic Disease; 178 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 189 is above the median of 120 across 722 interventional studies indexed under Chronic Disease.
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General Practices working in the capital region in Denmark
Exclusion Criteria:
General Practices where the facilitator works.
Practices allocated to outreach visits may receive up to three outreach visits in order to motivate and support general practice clinics in implementing two chronic care programmes for chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease and Type 2 diabetes.
Behavioral: Outreach visits
These practices are allocated to outreach visits after the initial evaluation stops at 12 months.
The 16 facilitators in the project attend an educational programme designed to provide them with the necessary skills and tools for the task. The facilitators visit general practice clinics from March 2011 until the end of 2012. Each clinic is offered three visits. The facilitator is to act as a change agent who motivates and helps the clinic team in the process of defining common goals, and choosing the appropriate means for achieving them.
Change from baseline at 12 month in Annual systematic chronic disease follow up consultations
Change in annual systematic chronic disease controls per person affiliated with a primary care at a period at baseline and at 12 month.
Time frame: Month 4, 3, 2 before baseline and month 13,14,15 after baseline (after intervention)
ICPC diagnosis coding
Self reports regarding the use of ICPC diagnosis coding for Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Time frame: 12 months
Sentinel Data Capture
Application for the electronic Sentinel Data Capture module for overview of patients with chronic diseases.
Time frame: 12 months
Stratification
The self reported use of stratification as part of primary care management of patients with chronic diseases
Time frame: 12 months
Change from baseline and at 12 month in practices with low performance on annual systematic chronic disease follow up consultations.
Reduction in the number of practices with less than 1% annual systematic chronic disease follow up consultations.
Time frame: Month 4, 3, 2 before baseline and month 13,14,15 after baseline (after intervention)
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