Effectiveness of a Educational Intervention to Improve the Resolution Capacity of Primary Health Care Teams.

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

48 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2004-07-31

Study Completion Date

2005-05-31

Brief Summary

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There is a great variability in the different primary care teams referral rate. And variability means inappropriateness somewhere in the process of care. The most important determinants of the variability are the attitude and knowledge of the professional, the existence and availability of evidence, the resources available and the professionals practice style. To improve the knowledge of the professionals could be a way to decrease the variability. Because of this, we have the aim to determinate the effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve the primary care teams from the city of Barcelona referral rate.

Detailed Description

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The aim of our study is to determinate if an active educational intervention (interactive sessions discussing clinical cases plus the minimal intervention) reduces the professionals referral rate compared with the minimal intervention group (written adapted clinical practice guidelines and feedback about their referral rate compared with other primary care teams). It is a cluster-randomized controlled trial stratified by the percentage of reform and the referral rate. The subjects were primary care physicians of the 51 teams of Barcelona city attending 1.160.748 inhabitants.

Conditions

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Referral and Consultation

Keywords

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Effectiveness Educational intervention Primary health care

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

ECT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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Educational interactive intervention

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Primary care teams who agree to participate.
* Primary care teams attending adult population (older than 14).

Exclusion Criteria

* Primary care teams where the intervention would be difficult to take place.
* Primary care teams where the referral rate is not available.
* Primary care teams with a percentage of reform lower than 40%.

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Principal Investigators

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Josep Casajuana, Physician

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Catalan Institute of Health

Locations

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Àmbit Barcelona (Catalan Institute of Health)

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

Other Identifiers

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P03/30

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

PI031409