The Use of Reminders in Implementing an E-learning Program in General Practice

Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Reminder letters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00394017

CPH-06-01-FEAP

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate General Practitioners use and reuptake of an e-learning programme in diagnostic evaluation of dementia after an intervention consisting of three mailed reminder letters.

There is no direct patient involvement in this study.

Full description

The three mailed reminder letters will be mailed to the General Practitioners (GPs) in January 2007. The Periods where the e-learning programme will identify GPs using the programme are: Period before: November 1. and 6 weeks forward. Period after: Medio marts and 6 weeks forward.

All log files are kept anonymous for the principal study investigator by the Danish Medical Association.

Enrollment: 339 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• General Practitioners working in Copenhagen Municipality October 1st 2006

Exclusion criteria

• General Practitioners stopping to work in study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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339 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Reminder letters and usual implementations vs. usual implementation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reminder letters

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

usual implementations

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reminder letters