Outreach Visits to Optimize Chronic Care Management in General Practice: A Cluster Randomized Trial (Output)

Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Outreach visits

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01297075

GP00990002

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 189 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

General Practices working in the capital region in Denmark

Exclusion criteria

General Practices where the facilitator works.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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189 participants in 2 patient groups

Outreach visits

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Outreach visits

Control (late intervention)

No Intervention group

Description:

These practices are allocated to outreach visits after the initial evaluation stops at 12 months.