Nurse vs General Practitioner Care for Patients Requesting Same Day Consultations in Primary Care

Catalan Institute of Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acute Disease; Family Practice; Ambulatory Care; Nursing Care

Treatments: Procedure: Nurse practitioner care of patients

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00461201

PI060715

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of nursing care in relation to usual medical care in adult patients who demand to be visited the same day in Primary Care Teams in Catalonia, as it is suggested in other countries.

Full description

The primary care demand is rapidly growing and the family physicians feel overflowed by the demand and their capacity to solve things is limited by lack of time. Many organizational interventions have been planned to solve this problem. One of these is to imply the nurse professional to solve and control health problems that traditionally were the doctor's job. So, to demonstrate the nursing care is as effective as the medical care, we will compare, among both collectives, the 'quality' of care received by patients who ask an appointment for the same day.

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients requesting same day consultations in primary care
• assigned to the practice

Exclusion criteria

• do not want to participate
• difficulties to follow-up
• serious illness that makes the intervention impossible
• home visits

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)