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CompletedNCT00202202

User Satisfaction Survey - Personality Disorder Service

Survey of the Consultation Service of the Providence Continuing Care Centre Personality Disorder Service Users Satisfaction With the Change in Service Delivery

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100 (actual)
Sponsor
Queen's University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Can we improve our community partners satisfaction with a change in how psychiatric consultations are delivered to their clients by our psychiatrist? This survey of users of the service will compare the level of satisfaction before(retrospectively) to after the way the service is provided is changed.

Detailed description

As part of the personality disorder services continuing quality improvement enterprise we sought to review the impact of restructuring on the satisfaction of service community partners with our changed consultation service. The consultation service was changed as the result of administrative review,part of a larger institution wide process. To review how this change was perceived by agency and individual care providers those who had received consult reports from the last fifty consultations were surveyed about their satisfaction and compared prospectively to the satisfaction of the agencies and individual care providers of clients receiving the next fifty consultations delivered in the new format. The administrative review had indicated that the consultation reports were unnecessarily comprehensive and in the process time consuming and thereby interfered with timely access to appointments and involved excessive turn around time in the generation of reports. A new streamlined approach using a fill in the blanks type form and brief cover letter and the use of a follow up phone call to the main care giver the same day was devised to address these concerns. Satisfaction in regards to advice received, length of the report, waiting times for the appointment and for the delivery of the report,legibility and overall satisfaction were surveyed. The satisfaction with telephone feed back was also surveyed.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREconsultation format

Timeline

Start date
2002-11-01
Completion
2004-04-01
First posted
2005-09-20
Last updated
2015-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00202202. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.