Trial Outcomes & Findings for Diagnostics in the Leg Ulcer Pathway (NCT NCT06181708)

Results Overview

What percentage of respondents have access to onward specialist referral for venous leg ulcer management? What percentage of primary care practitioners have access to refer for venous duplex imaging? What percentage of primary care practitioners felt there needs to be clearer guidelines on the management of patients with venous leg ulcers.

Recruitment status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Target enrollment

135 participants

Primary outcome timeframe

3 months

Results posted on

2025-04-29

Participant Flow

Participant milestones

Participant milestones
Measure	Primary Care Practitioners A one off questionnaire to be sent to primary care practitioners via qualtrics to determine the current practice in primary care for venous leg ulcer management and availability of services to onward referral. N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study	Vascular Scientists A Delphi Consensus questionnaire will be performed via Qualtrics to determine the current practice for diagnosis and management of suspected venous leg ulcers in vascular scientist departments across the UK N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study
Overall Study STARTED	92	43
Overall Study COMPLETED	92	36
Overall Study NOT COMPLETED	0	7

Reasons for withdrawal

Withdrawal data not reported

Baseline Characteristics

Age of participant not collected for this study.

Baseline characteristics by cohort

Baseline characteristics by cohort
Measure	Primary Care Practitioners n=92 Participants A one off questionnaire to be sent to primary care practitioners via qualtrics to determine the current practice in primary care for venous leg ulcer management and availability of services to onward referral. N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study	Vascular Scientists n=43 Participants A Delphi Consensus questionnaire will be performed via Qualtrics to determine the current practice for diagnosis and management of suspected venous leg ulcers in vascular scientist departments across the UK N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study	Total n=135 Participants Total of all reporting groups
Sex: Female, Male Female	—	—	0 Participants Gender of participants not collected for this study.
Sex: Female, Male Male	—	—	0 Participants Gender of participants not collected for this study.
Race and Ethnicity Not Collected	—	—	0 Participants Race and Ethnicity were not collected from any participant.

PRIMARY outcome

Timeframe: 3 months

Population: The overall response rate was 92, but it was not compulsory to answer every question in the questionnaire, so some questions had different response rates.

What percentage of respondents have access to onward specialist referral for venous leg ulcer management? What percentage of primary care practitioners have access to refer for venous duplex imaging? What percentage of primary care practitioners felt there needs to be clearer guidelines on the management of patients with venous leg ulcers.

Outcome measures

Outcome measures
Measure	Primary Care Practitioners n=92 Participants A one off questionnaire to be sent to primary care practitioners via qualtrics to determine the current practice in primary care for venous leg ulcer management and availability of services to onward referral. N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study
Primary Care Practitioners and the Management of Venous Leg Ulcers. What % of respondents have access to onward specialist referral for venous leg ulcer management?	50 Participants
Primary Care Practitioners and the Management of Venous Leg Ulcers. What percentage of primary care practitioners have access to refer for venous duplex imaging?	34 Participants
Primary Care Practitioners and the Management of Venous Leg Ulcers. What % of PCP felt there needs to be clearer guidelines on management of patients with VLUs.	45 Participants

PRIMARY outcome

Timeframe: 3 months

Population: There were 43 responses to the Delphi.

To determine a consensus on the diagnostic management of suspected venous leg ulcers in vascular scientist departments across the UK. What % of respondents felt there needed to be clearer guidelines on how to best manage these patients diagnostically? What % of respondents felt that specialist leg ulcer clinics should be run? What % felt patients should be able to access an ABPI as part of this clinic? What % felt patients should be able to access a venous duplex scan as part of this clinic? What % felt leg ulcer clinics should be held in secondary

Outcome measures

Outcome measures
Measure	Primary Care Practitioners n=43 Participants A one off questionnaire to be sent to primary care practitioners via qualtrics to determine the current practice in primary care for venous leg ulcer management and availability of services to onward referral. N/A - Questionnaire based study: Questionnaire based study
Vascular Scientists What % of respondents felt there needed to be clearer diagnostic guidelines?	29 Participants
Vascular Scientists What % of respondents felt that specialist leg ulcer clinics should be run?	33 Participants
Vascular Scientists What % felt patients should be able to access an ABPI as part of this clinic?	32 Participants
Vascular Scientists What % felt patients should be able to access a venous duplex scan as part of this clinic?	24 Participants
Vascular Scientists What % felt leg ulcer clinics should be held in secondary care?	22 Participants
Vascular Scientists What % felt compression bandaging should be removed before a venous insufficiency scan?	34 Participants

Adverse Events

Primary Care Practitioners

Serious events: 0 serious events

Other events: 0 other events

Deaths: 0 deaths

Vascular Scientists

Serious events: 0 serious events

Other events: 0 other events

Deaths: 0 deaths

Serious adverse events

Adverse event data not reported

Other adverse events

Adverse event data not reported

Additional Information

Emma Flint

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Phone: 02033117322

Email: [email protected]

Results disclosure agreements

Principal investigator is a sponsor employee
Publication restrictions are in place