Learning Health System for Asthma

NCT ID: NCT03000491

Last Updated: 2024-05-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

750000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-03-03

Study Completion Date

2018-09-30

Brief Summary

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This study forms an initial phase of work aimed at developing a learning health system (LHS), whereby data relating to asthma is extracted from patient electronic health records (EHRs) across Scotland, analysed to explore variations in clinical practice and then shared with general practices to highlight any improvements that can be made so that they can better support people with asthma.

If successful, the investigators hope to progress to the main quality improvement phase involving an increased number of practices and then incrementally build this up to cover the whole of Scotland.

Detailed Description

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The UK has amongst the highest rates of asthma in the world as well as some of the poorest health outcomes from asthma.

Investigations into asthma deaths in the UK have found that the way patients were managed in the time leading up to their death could be improved significantly and half of asthma deaths are potentially avoidable. For most people with asthma, symptoms can come and go and sometimes be erratic. To prevent these symptoms, there is a window of opportunity to intervene with the appropriate care. This window occurs between when someone experiences early symptoms like night cough or wheeze and when they experience a full-blown asthma attack.

Most people with asthma receive care primarily in their general practice. General practices have a history of using health information technology to care for their patients. The use of this technology over time has resulted in the creation of rich electronic healthcare data. Through this rich data there are opportunities to create a system whereby clinical management can be benchmarked and improvements highlighted.

This study forms an initial phase of work aimed at developing a learning health system (LHS), whereby data relating to asthma is extracted from patient electronic health records (EHRs) across Scotland, analysed to explore variations in clinical practice and then shared with general practices to highlight any improvements that can be made so that they can better support people with asthma.

If successful, the investigators hope to progress to the main quality improvement phase involving an increased number of practices and then incrementally build this up to cover the whole of Scotland.

Conditions

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Asthma

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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No intervention

Variations in clinical practice as assessed by data relating to asthma extracted from patient electronic health records.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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ID: AC16078 NCT03000491

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

• Patients registered with general practices across Scotland.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients from general practices that do not to opt-in to the study.
* Patients with a READ code recording dissent from use of their records for research purposes.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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NHS Lothian

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Edinburgh

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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University ot Edinburgh

Edinburgh, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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AC16078

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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