Evaluation Research of a National Accreditation and Improvement Programme for General Practice
Effects and Costs of a National Continuous Improvement Programme on Cardiovascular Diseases in Primary Care
Objective: This study aims to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of a national accreditation and improvement programme for general practice, focusing on patients with established cardiovascular diseases.
Design: Cluster randomised trial with a block design. All practices start with the accreditation procedure.Intervention group practices are requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on cardiovascular disease. Control group practices are requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on other domains. Measurements at baseline are based on the standard audit in the accreditation procedure. Follow-up measurements are done 12 months after approval of improvement plans.
Participants: Primary care physicians in The Netherlands.
Interventions to be implemented: improvement plans concerning cardiovascular risk management, as described by recently updated national multidisciplinary evidence-based NHG / CBO guidelines, considering patients with established cardiovascular diseases.
Implementation strategy: The national programme for accreditation and improvement of general practice. This procedure consists of a package of activities, including audit, feedback, improvement plans, and follow-up.
Outcome measures: Primary outcomes are percentages of patients with CVD who have acceptable systolic blood pressure and cholesterol levels (quantified according to the indicators in the accreditation)and who use aspirin or alternatives. Secondary measures include clinical and organisational indicators of quality of cardiovascular care, such as percentages of patients with cardiovascular disease whose risk factors were assessed and who received specific medication.
Economic evaluation: Incremental cost effectiveness ratio's are determined of the implementation strategy compared to no implementation. The analysis will take a societal perspective and a time horizon of the observed period as well as a hypothetical 10 years period (using modelling). Uncertainty related to the estimations is examined with sensitivity analyses and bootstrapping. The long term economic evaluation is based on Markov modelling.
Přehled studie
Postavení
Podmínky
Intervence / Léčba
Typ studie
Zápis (Aktuální)
Fáze
- Nelze použít
Kontakty a umístění
Studijní místa
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Nijmegen, Holandsko
- 23 Locations
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Kritéria účasti
Kritéria způsobilosti
Věk způsobilý ke studiu
- Dítě
- Dospělý
- Starší dospělý
Přijímá zdravé dobrovolníky
Pohlaví způsobilá ke studiu
Popis
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with established cardiovascular diseases (myocard infarct, angina pectoris, cerebrovascular accident, Transient Ischaemic Attack, peripheral vascular disease, aneurysma aortae)
Exclusion Criteria:
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Studijní plán
Jak je studie koncipována?
Detaily designu
- Primární účel: Výzkum zdravotnických služeb
- Přidělení: Randomizované
- Intervenční model: Paralelní přiřazení
- Maskování: Žádné (otevřený štítek)
Zbraně a zásahy
Skupina účastníků / Arm |
Intervence / Léčba |
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Jiný: improvement programme CVD
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The national programme for accreditation and improvement of general practice.
This procedure consists of a package of activities, including audit, feedback, improvement plans, and follow-up.
It is partly based on new theories on quality improvement, including the use of market forces and pressure for accountability.
For the purpose of the study, the intervention group will be requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on cardiovascular diseases.
The control group is requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on other domains and to provide cardiovascular care as usual.
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Jiný: improvement programme other conditions
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The national programme for accreditation and improvement of general practice.
This procedure consists of a package of activities, including audit, feedback, improvement plans, and follow-up.
It is partly based on new theories on quality improvement, including the use of market forces and pressure for accountability.
For the purpose of the study, the intervention group will be requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on cardiovascular diseases.
The control group is requested to focus their improvement plans in the first year on other domains and to provide cardiovascular care as usual.
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Co je měření studie?
Primární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Časové okno |
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Percentages of patients with CVD who have acceptable systolic blood pressure and cholesterol levels (quantified according to the indicators in the accreditation)and who use aspirin or alternatives.
Časové okno: dec 2008-feb 2011
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dec 2008-feb 2011
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Sekundární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Časové okno |
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Clinical and organisational indicators of quality of cardiovascular care, such as percentages of patients with cardiovascular disease whose riskfactors were assessed and who received specific medication.
Časové okno: dec 2008-feb 2011
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dec 2008-feb 2011
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Spolupracovníci a vyšetřovatelé
Vyšetřovatelé
- Vrchní vyšetřovatel: Michel Wensing, Dr, IQ Scientific Institute for Quality of HealthCare - UMC St Radboud
Publikace a užitečné odkazy
Obecné publikace
- Nouwens E, van Lieshout J, Bouma M, Braspenning J, Wensing M. Effectiveness of improvement plans in primary care practice accreditation: a clustered randomized trial. PLoS One. 2014 Dec 2;9(12):e114045. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114045. eCollection 2014.
- Nouwens E, Van Lieshout J, Adang E, Bouma M, Braspenning J, Wensing M. Effectiveness and efficiency of a practice accreditation program on cardiovascular risk management in primary care: study protocol of a clustered randomized trial. Implement Sci. 2012 Oct 4;7:94. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-94.
Termíny studijních záznamů
Hlavní termíny studia
Začátek studia
Primární dokončení (Aktuální)
Dokončení studie (Aktuální)
Termíny zápisu do studia
První předloženo
První předloženo, které splnilo kritéria kontroly kvality
První zveřejněno (Odhad)
Aktualizace studijních záznamů
Poslední zveřejněná aktualizace (Odhad)
Odeslaná poslední aktualizace, která splnila kritéria kontroly kvality
Naposledy ověřeno
Více informací
Termíny související s touto studií
Klíčová slova
Další relevantní podmínky MeSH
Další identifikační čísla studie
- PAHVZ
- 170883001
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