Healthcare at Optimal Care Level for Patients Who Needs Primary Care
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interventional
200
0 countries
N/A
Brief Summary
If patients get to optimal level of healthcare directly it will prevent suffering for both patients and their relatives and moreover save a lot of resources. In the project "Care at the right care level" (CRC) the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) will triage patients who are in need of primary health care to the Primary Care (PC) instead of to the Emergency Department (ED). This intervention should be implemented with the same medical safety as with traditional care in the ED and the patient and their relatives should experience corresponding confidence to the healthcare provider. To prepare this intervention this patient group and their care needs have to be identified by a retrospective journal review and a guideline has to be developed. To evaluate the patients' and their relatives' experience of the intervention, finally interviews will be implemented. This project is expected to provide answers whether it is possible to triage non-urgent patients to another care level with the same medical safety and that the patients experience the same confidence in healthcare. And further it will answer the question, if the care providers around the patient manage to collaborate.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2011
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
September 1, 2011
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 1, 2015
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 11, 2015
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 14, 2015
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
June 1, 2017
CompletedAugust 14, 2015
August 1, 2015
3.8 years
August 11, 2015
August 13, 2015
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
To measure patient trust in healthcare - Questionnaire
A lickert scale with possible responses as follows (scores in parentheses): strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neither disagree nor agree (3), agree (4) and strongly agree (5).
2-3 days
Study Arms (2)
Emergency Department
OTHERTriage to optimal healthcare level
Healthcare Center
OTHERTriage to optimal healthcare level
Interventions
Triage to optimal healthcare level
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Un-urgent patient in ambulance
- Age from 18 years
- No communication problems
- No dementia or disorientation
- Not in need of special examinations
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Officials
- STUDY DIRECTOR
Johan Herlitz, Professor
University of Boras, Sweden
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Birgitta Wireklint Sundström, RNAN, PhD (Associate professor)
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 11, 2015
First Posted
August 14, 2015
Study Start
September 1, 2011
Primary Completion
June 1, 2015
Study Completion
June 1, 2017
Last Updated
August 14, 2015
Record last verified: 2015-08