NCT00962455

Feedback Reports and e-Learning in Primary Care Spirometry

Feedback Reports and E-learning to Support Spirometry Test Performance in Dutch Family Practices

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,135 (actual)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Spirometry is a biomedical test to measure lung function in subject who (may) have a chronic respiratory condition. Performing the test requires a certain level of training and experience from the health care professional who conducts the test, and sufficient cooperation of the patient. Although the test is widely used in primary care in many countries, the quality of the test performance seems limited and needs improvement in order to avoid false-positive and false-negative test interpretations. In this study, the researchers investigated whether a combination of e-learning and bimonthly written performance feedback to family practice nurses and assistance regarding their spirometry tests improves the rate of adequate tests.

Conditions

• Respiratory Tract Diseases
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	e-learning & performance feedback	Initial e-learning by studying CD-Rom 'Spirometry Fundamentals', followed by repeated periodic performance feedback on spirometry test quality
OTHER	usual practice	Usual practice regarding spirometry execution in family practice

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2008-11-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2009-08-20
• Last updated: 2009-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands