Analysis of the Results Obtained in the Regular Clinical Practice of a Clinical Ultrasound Classroom For Primary Care Physicians As a Formative Intervention System

The objectives of the project are to evaluate the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the degree of satisfaction of a methodology based on theoretical-practical training in abdominal and thyroid clinical ultrasound of family doctors, in the urban area of Primary Health Care, and to evaluate the benefit obtained by patients over 60 years of age included in the program, analyzing the degree of satisfaction, resolution time of the reason for consultation and decrease in the number of referrals to the second level of care, analyzing the differences by gender.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Primary Care; Family Medicine; Clinical Ultrasound
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: A training intervention on clinical ultrasound

Detailed Description

The objectives of the project are to evaluate the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the degree of satisfaction of a methodology based on theoretical-practical training in abdominal and thyroid clinical ultrasound of family doctors, in the urban area of Primary Health Care, and to evaluate the benefit obtained by patients over 60 years of age included in the program, analyzing the degree of satisfaction, resolution time of the reason for consultation and decrease in the number of referrals to the second level of care, analyzing the differences by gender.

The expected impact is that the doctors participating in the project learn to perform abdominal and thyroid ultrasound and continue to perform them during the year that their participation in the project lasts, and independently thereafter. In addition, this will allow the reduction of interconsultations to the specialized care and emergencies of their patients whose primary care physicians perform ultrasound scans in their health center.

Its application in clinical practice will be reflected because doctors who perform ultrasound scans in their primary care centers will increase their diagnostic certainty in real consultation time on many occasions, thereby reducing interconsultations at the second level of care, and when they have to refer a patient at this level, they will do so in a more documented manner.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 40
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Fernando Pérez Escanilla; Phone Number: 923177831; Email: fperezes@saludcastillayleon.es

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Salamanca, Spain, 37006
    • Recruiting
    • Primary Care Research Unit of Salamanca
    • Contact: Luis García Ortiz, MD; Phone Number: 0034923231859; Email: lgarciao@usal.es
    • Contact: Fernando Perez Escanilla, MD; Email: fperezes@saludcastillayleon.es
    • Principal Investigator: Luis Garcia-Ortiz, MD
    • Principal Investigator: Fernando Perez-Escanilla, MD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• To work in selected health centers.
• To have assigned to more than 800 patients.
• Not have previous training in regulated clinical ultrasound.
• Sign a commitment to Attendance at least 80% of the training program sessions.
• Sign the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not meeting any of the inclusion criteria.
• Not signing the informed consent.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention Group	Procedure: A training intervention on clinical ultrasound; To train 20 primary care family doctors in clinical ultrasound so that they have greater power of resolution and allow them to limit the diagnostic and surgical times on the waiting lists of their patients.
No Intervention: Control Group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of knowledge and skills	An initial evaluation of knowledge will be carried out prior to the start of the training intervention, which will consist of 10 multiple choice questions with four possible answers with only 1 correct one (5 theoretical questions on the fundamentals and use of ultrasound, and interpretation of 5 images of pathologies or ultrasound anatomy). For the final evaluation, a new test will be carried out, with 10 questions similar to those of the initial test (5 theoretical questions and 5 common images).	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fundacion para la Investigacion y Formacion en Ciencias de la Salud

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 9, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 14, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 14, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 9, 2023
• Last Verified: June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Primary care; Family medicine; Clinical ultrasound; Resolution improvement
• Other Study ID Numbers: IBYAP22/00008

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No