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Asthma & COPD Guideline Implementation

9 gennaio 2013 aggiornato da: Laval University

Asthma and COPD Guideline Implementation: Lessons Learned on Recruitment of Primary Care Physicians to a Knowledge Translation Study

This is a report of a protocol developed to improve asthma and COPD care in a primary care setting. The study was approved by an Ethics Committee and support by the Canadian Thoracic Society through an unrestrictive grant from GlaxoSmithKline. However, the study could not be done and the investigators report why, discussing the difficulties to perform such study. This information should be very useful to investigators planning this sort of study.

Panoramica dello studio

Stato

Terminato

Condizioni

Intervento / Trattamento

Descrizione dettagliata

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the two most common chronic pulmonary ailments in Canada, affecting about 2.5 million and 750 thousand individuals, respectively. In the last two decades, the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) has successfully developed and disseminated evidence-based asthma and COPD clinical practice guidelines. However, evidence suggests that guideline implementation in these diseases remains inadequate.

Successful guideline implementation requires tailoring of selected strategies to settings and population-specific barriers, based on established theories and principles. In 2004, the CTS and its collaborators organized a symposium in Quebec City, to discuss existing barriers to respiratory guideline implementation and possible knowledge translation (KT) strategies. This was followed in the fall of 2007 by an expert-led workshop on guideline implementation strategies.

Herein, the investigators report the planned methods and outcome of a project which resulted from these meetings. This study sought to explore the effectiveness of a multi-faceted KT strategy in improving concordance with COPD and asthma guidelines among primary care physicians (PCPs) in Canada, but was aborted due to inadequate PCP recruitment. The investigators discuss the difficulties encountered in recruiting PCPs, factors which may have influenced recruitment, and alternative strategies. The goal of the investigators is to provide practical lessons to inform the design of future KT initiatives with similar interventions and/or a similar target audience.

Tipo di studio

Interventistico

Iscrizione (Effettivo)

92

Fase

  • Prima fase 1

Contatti e Sedi

Questa sezione fornisce i recapiti di coloro che conducono lo studio e informazioni su dove viene condotto lo studio.

Luoghi di studio

  • Canada
    • Quebec
      • Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1V 4G5
        • Institut Universitaire De Cardiologie Et De Pneumologie De Québec

Criteri di partecipazione

I ricercatori cercano persone che corrispondano a una certa descrizione, chiamata criteri di ammissibilità. Alcuni esempi di questi criteri sono le condizioni generali di salute di una persona o trattamenti precedenti.

Criteri di ammissibilità

Età idonea allo studio

  • Bambino
  • Adulto
  • Adulto più anziano

Accetta volontari sani

No

Sessi ammissibili allo studio

Tutto

Descrizione

Inclusion Criteria:

Primary care physicians were eligible if they: 1) managed at least 15 patients with asthma and 15 patients with COPD per month in an office setting; and 2) agreed to designate an appropriately trained person at his/her site to identify eligible study patients, collect consent, and provide a questionnaire to patients.

Patients were eligible if they: 1) spoke French or English; and 2) had a diagnosis of asthma or COPD (as per their participating PCP). Furthermore, patients with asthma had to be between 18 and 45 years of age, and patients with COPD had to be between 40 and 75 years of age and have a smoking history of >10 pack-years.

Exclusion Criteria:

Physicians were excluded if they: 1) had presented at a continuing medical education (CME) event on asthma or COPD in last year; 2) had completed any specialty training in respiratory diseases; or 3) practiced primarily at walk-in clinics, with children, or in emergency departments.

Patients were excluded if they: 1) had any condition which could interfere with study measurements (as per their participating PCP); 2) had any known respiratory disorders other than asthma or COPD; or 3) were currently participating in another clinical trial.

Piano di studio

Questa sezione fornisce i dettagli del piano di studio, compreso il modo in cui lo studio è progettato e ciò che lo studio sta misurando.

Come è strutturato lo studio?

Dettagli di progettazione

  • Scopo principale: Selezione
  • Assegnazione: Randomizzato
  • Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
  • Mascheramento: Nessuno (etichetta aperta)

Armi e interventi

Gruppo di partecipanti / Arm
Intervento / Trattamento
Comparatore attivo: Standard practice group (SPG)
Send a copy of the latest Canadian asthma and COPD guidelines to all PCPs.
Altro: Standard Practice Group (SPG)
The investigators planned to send a copy of the latest Canadian asthma and COPD guidelines to all PCPs in the Standard Practice (SP) Group at the start of the study period, by mail. No other intervention would be offered during the study, but upon study completion, all control participants would be offered the educational intervention received by the Targeted Intervention Strategy (TIS) Group.
Comparatore attivo: Targeted Intervention Strategy (TISG)
interactive educational intervention, expert mentorship, practice-based tools. Consisting of 3 interactive sessions, 2 of which would be live meetings of 3h each and the third a one-hour teleconference.
Altro: TISG
interactive educational interventions, expert mentorship and practice-based tools. 3 interactive sessions, 2 of which would be live meetings of 3h each, and the third hour teleconference.

Cosa sta misurando lo studio?

Misure di risultato primarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
Physician Assessment Questionnaire-Asthma
Lasso di tempo: First visit

The co-primary outcomes (for asthma and COPD) were defined as the change in patient-reported physician conformity to each of the following key guideline recommendations, measured through a questionnaire (Appendix 1):

A) For asthma, assessment of asthma control, defined as ascertainment of at least 2 of the 5 asthma control questions recommended by the Canadian Asthma Guidelines. Stratified physician randomization would randomize 75% of PCPs to the TIS group and 25% to the SP group.
First visit

Misure di risultato secondarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
The Physician Practice Assessment Questionnaire
Lasso di tempo: First visit
Secondary outcomes collected through the patient questionnaires included other guideline-recommended physician behaviours. For asthma, these included spirometry performance, asthma action plan provision and review, inhaler technique review, and maintenance anti-inflammatory medication prescription when indicated. For COPD, these included spirometry performance, inhaler technique review, exacerbation screening, long-acting bronchodilator prescription when indicated, and smoking cessation efforts in smokers. A separate questionnaire measured physician self-reported changes in knowledge and adherence to guideline-recommended behaviours (the "Physician Practice Assessment Questionnaire") (PPAQ)
First visit

Collaboratori e investigatori

Qui è dove troverai le persone e le organizzazioni coinvolte in questo studio.

Sponsor

Laval University

Collaboratori

GlaxoSmithKline
Canadian Lung Association

Investigatori

  • Investigatore principale: Louis-Philippe Boulet, MD, FRCPC, Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, University Laval

Studiare le date dei record

Queste date tengono traccia dell'avanzamento della registrazione dello studio e dell'invio dei risultati di sintesi a ClinicalTrials.gov. I record degli studi e i risultati riportati vengono esaminati dalla National Library of Medicine (NLM) per assicurarsi che soddisfino specifici standard di controllo della qualità prima di essere pubblicati sul sito Web pubblico.

Studia le date principali

Inizio studio

1 settembre 2009

Completamento primario (Effettivo)

1 marzo 2010

Completamento dello studio (Effettivo)

1 marzo 2010

Date di iscrizione allo studio

Primo inviato

7 gennaio 2013

Primo inviato che soddisfa i criteri di controllo qualità

9 gennaio 2013

Primo Inserito (Stima)

11 gennaio 2013

Aggiornamenti dei record di studio

Ultimo aggiornamento pubblicato (Stima)

11 gennaio 2013

Ultimo aggiornamento inviato che soddisfa i criteri QC

9 gennaio 2013

Ultimo verificato

1 gennaio 2013

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Termini relativi a questo studio

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Altri numeri di identificazione dello studio

  • GIPC

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