Primary Care Pathway for Childhood Asthma

NCT ID: NCT02481037

Last Updated: 2019-09-25

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

22 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-04-30

Study Completion Date

2019-03-31

Brief Summary

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At least half of children with asthma have poor disease control, which can result in complications requiring emergency treatment and hospitalization. As asthma is one of the most common reasons for children to visit emergency departments (ED) and be hospitalized, this disease places a heavy burden on the health care system and families. While there is strong evidence that timely treatment with preventative therapies can substantially improve asthma control, reduce sudden worsening of symptoms, and lower rates of ED visits and hospitalizations, a significant proportion of children do not receive these therapies.

The purpose of this study is to improve the prescription and use of evidenced-based preventative therapies for children with asthma with the goal to significantly improve their disease control and quality of life, while reducing unnecessary ED visits and hospitalizations. The investigators will achieve this by: i) installing a primary care clinical pathway for managing childhood asthma into clinicians' electronic medical record (EMR) to facilitate the use of best-evidence by practitioners, and ii) training chronic disease management (CDM) health professionals to provide targeted and timely asthma education to parents and children with asthma. The investigators will test this pathway and education project in a representative sample of 22 Alberta primary care practices, using a pragmatic cluster controlled trial methodology.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Asthma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Embedding a primary care clinical pathway for managing childhood asthma into clinicians' electronic medical record (EMR) to facilitate practitioners utilizing best-evidence; training these practices' chronic disease management (CDM) professionals to provide asthma education to children with asthma and their parents; and clinicians receiving an EMR embedded dashboard.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Primary care clinical pathway

Intervention Type OTHER

Installing a primary care clinical pathway for managing childhood asthma into clinicians' electronic medical record (EMR) to facilitate the use of best-evidence by practitioners.

Asthma education

Intervention Type OTHER

Physicians will receive web-based education through an interactive learning module regarding best management for childhood asthma and use of the primary care clinical pathway. Chronic disease management (CDM) health professionals in practices will attend asthma education sessions delivered by an asthma educator. This training will be then used by the CDM professional to provide targeted and timely asthma education to parents and children with asthma.

EMR embedded dashboard

Intervention Type OTHER

An EMR embedded dashboard will deliver real-time feedback to clinicians.

Control group

Practice will continue with routine care. Control group will be offered the intervention at study completion, if successful.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Primary care clinical pathway

Installing a primary care clinical pathway for managing childhood asthma into clinicians' electronic medical record (EMR) to facilitate the use of best-evidence by practitioners.

Intervention Type OTHER

Asthma education

Physicians will receive web-based education through an interactive learning module regarding best management for childhood asthma and use of the primary care clinical pathway. Chronic disease management (CDM) health professionals in practices will attend asthma education sessions delivered by an asthma educator. This training will be then used by the CDM professional to provide targeted and timely asthma education to parents and children with asthma.

Intervention Type OTHER

EMR embedded dashboard

An EMR embedded dashboard will deliver real-time feedback to clinicians.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Validated diagnosis of asthma according to CPCSSN validated definition

Exclusion Criteria

* Children under 1 and over 17 years of age
* Children of parents who have opted out of CPCSSN data collection
* Children with validated asthma who have not attended practices in the last 2 years, or have not received bronchodilator therapy in the last 12 months
Minimum Eligible Age

1 Year

Maximum Eligible Age

17 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Alberta Health Services, Calgary

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Calgary

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

TELUS

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Alberta

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Andrew Cave, FCFP, FRCGP

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta

Locations

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University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Sharpe H, Potestio M, Cave A, Johnson DW, Scott SD. Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of the Primary Care Asthma Paediatric Pathway: a qualitative analysis. BMJ Open. 2022 May 12;12(5):e058950. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058950.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35551084 (View on PubMed)

Cave AJ, Sharpe H, Anselmo M, Befus AD, Currie G, Davey C, Drummond N, Graham J, Green LA, Grimshaw J, Kam K, Manca DP, Nettel-Aguirre A, Potestio ML, Rowe BH, Scott SD, Williamson T, Johnson DW. Primary Care Pathway for Childhood Asthma: Protocol for a Randomized Cluster-Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Mar 8;5(1):e37. doi: 10.2196/resprot.5261.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26955763 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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201400389

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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