The Use of Reminders in Implementing an E-learning Program in General Practice - Full Text View

Sponsor:	Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen
Collaborator:	Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark
Information provided by:	Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00394017

Purpose

To evaluate General Practitioners use and reuptake of an e-learning programme in diagnostic evaluation of dementia after an intervention consisting of three mailed reminder letters.

There is no direct patient involvement in this study.

Condition	Intervention
Dementia	Behavioral: Reminder letters

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Official Title:	Implementation of an E-learning Program in Diagnostic Evaluation of Dementia by Reminders: A RCT Among General Practitioners in Copenhagen

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Dementia

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The proportion of General Practices using the e-learning programme at least once in periods monitored.

Secondary Outcome Measures:

The number of logins in the periods monitored.
The time og logins in the periods monitored.
The number of logins in working hours in the periods monitored.

Enrollment:	339
Study Start Date:	November 2006
Study Completion Date:	May 2007
Primary Completion Date:	May 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Intervention group Reminder letters and usual implementations vs. usual implementation	Behavioral: Reminder letters 3 mailed reminder letters
No Intervention: Control group usual implementations	Behavioral: Reminder letters 3 mailed reminder letters

Detailed Description:

The three mailed reminder letters will be mailed to the General Practitioners (GPs) in January 2007. The Periods where the e-learning programme will identify GPs using the programme are: Period before: November 1. and 6 weeks forward. Period after: Medio marts and 6 weeks forward.

All log files are kept anonymous for the principal study investigator by the Danish Medical Association.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	30 Years to 75 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

General Practitioners working in Copenhagen Municipality October 1st 2006

Exclusion Criteria:

General Practitioners stopping to work in study period

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00394017

Locations

Denmark
Research Unit of General Practice
Copenhagen, Capital Province, Denmark, 1014

Sponsors and Collaborators

Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen

Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Frans B Waldorff, PhD

Research Unit of General Practice

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Frans Boch Waldorff /MD PhD, Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00394017 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	CPH-06-01-FEAP
Study First Received:	October 26, 2006
Last Updated:	October 23, 2009
Health Authority:	Denmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency; Denmark: Ethics Committee

Keywords provided by Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen:

Heading Health Plan Implementation
Computer-Assisted Instruction
General Practice
Dementia
education

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Dementia
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases

Nervous System Diseases
Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 09, 2012