Monitoring Asthma and COPD in Primary Care

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-03-31

Study Completion Date

2008-04-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a written expert advice for GPs on additional diagnostic, treatment, and referral of patients based on half-yearly monitoring routines for patients with COPD or ashtma with a persistent obstruction in primary care based on a multicentre randomised nested clinical trial

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Detailed Description

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In the Netherlands, the majority of patients (60-80 %) with asthma or COPD are treated in primary care, primarily by General Practitioners (GPs). In 1995 a Regional Diagnostic Centre, Etten-Leur, The Netherlands (also called SHL: Stichting Huisartsen Laboratorium) started a lung function monitoring service for patients with asthma and COPD of GPs in the region. The GP receives recommendations on treatment, additional diagnostics and referrals of the patient based on extensive anamnesis (i.e. dyspnoea, symptoms, smoking stage), measurement of lung function, and BMI. Moreover,the general practitioners are supported by an Asthma/COPD nurse that visit the general practice half-yearly.

Main research question of this study: Is a written expert advice for GPs on additional diagnostic, treatment, and referral of patients based on half-yearly monitoring of patients with COPD or asthma with a persistent airway obstruction with support of an AC nurse consultant related to less impaired health related quality of life (HRQoL), less symptoms and better lung function of the patients compared to usual care?

A multi-centre, single blinded (patient, lung function assistant, advisor, and research team are blinded), parallel group study is carried out to compare the monitoring intervention with usual care during 24 months. General practices were allocated by a minimisation procedure and all participating patients of a general practice were allocated to the same treatment group (nested design).

Conditions

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Lung Diseases, Obstructive Asthma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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A

Device: monitoring services

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

half-yearly monitoring routine

Intervention Type DEVICE

A written expert advice for GPs on additional diagnostic, treatment, and referral of patients with asthma and COPD based on half-yearly monitoring routines (lung function assessments including extensive anamnese) supported by half-yearly visits of an AC nurse consultant to the general practices.

B

Control group: no monitoring procedures

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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half-yearly monitoring routine

A written expert advice for GPs on additional diagnostic, treatment, and referral of patients with asthma and COPD based on half-yearly monitoring routines (lung function assessments including extensive anamnese) supported by half-yearly visits of an AC nurse consultant to the general practices.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* The patient is categorised as asthmatic disease with persistent airway obstruction or COPD in the monitoring system SHL confirmed by the most recent lung function assessment (FEV1/FVC \< 70% after BD and FEV1 ≥ 50% pred after BD) or (FEV1 \< 80% predicted after BD and ≥ 9% reversibility)
* The patient is monitored by the AC service of the SHL.
* The GP of the patient is willing to participate in the trial.
* Written informed consent of participant

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients treated primary by a pulmonologist
* Patients currently participating in another respiratory intervention study
* When the GP considers it detrimental to the patient to participate in the study
* Serious other non-pulmonary diseases (or disease-stages) that are presumed to lead to "lost to follow-up" because of the severity of the disease course (like diseases with low survival rate or mental deterioration)
* Serious other pulmonary diseases that effect bronchial symptoms and/or lung function, e.g. sarcoidosis, lung cancer, lung fibrosis
* Illiteracy

Minimum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No