Snow Disease Surveillance System Study

NCT ID: NCT01232686

Last Updated: 2017-02-16

Study Results

Results pending

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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

2010-10-31

Study Completion Date

2012-12-31

Brief Summary

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The study investigates whether shared online access to epidemiological data for general practitioners, disease prevention officers, emergency care services and microbiology laboratories changes clinical practice with regard to testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases. The main hypothesis is that "online access for general practitioner to epidemiological data about communicable diseases changes clinical practice for testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases".

Detailed Description

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We will collect data from general practitioners (GP) offices by installing local data extraction solutions. Each installation will build a local anonymous database of GP consultations extracted from the local electronic patient record (EPR) system. These anonymous data records will be used to produce local disease statistics before they are exported to a centralized server available in the Norwegian Health network. The centralized server will produce daily reports about the epidemiological situation in the patient population. We will combine the syndromic data from the GP offices with data from the microbiology laboratories on the hospitals that covers the study areas. The epidemiological data will be made available to the intervention areas in the study through web based and customized client applications.

By using data extracted from the GP offices EPR databases and the microbiology laboratories we will investigate the study hypothesis.

Conditions

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Communicable Diseases

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control area

In the control areas we will monitor the prevalence and treatment of communicable diseases without giving the participants online access to disease surveillance information

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention area

In these areas we will give study participants online access to epidemiological data for communicable diseases

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Online disease surveillance data access

Intervention Type OTHER

In the intervention areas we will give the study participants online access to the Snow disease surveillance system. The system will provide data about the incidents of respiratory and gastrointestinal communicable diseases in the patient population.

Interventions

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Online disease surveillance data access

In the intervention areas we will give the study participants online access to the Snow disease surveillance system. The system will provide data about the incidents of respiratory and gastrointestinal communicable diseases in the patient population.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Volunteering General Practitioner (GP) working in a GP office

Exclusion Criteria

* The GP does not use a Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Tromso

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Norwegian Health Network (state owned enterprise)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital of North Norway

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Johan Gustav Bellika, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Tromsø, Department of Computer Science

Other Identifiers

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ID 3746/ HST954-10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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