NCT01232686

Snow Disease Surveillance System Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of North Norway · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study investigates whether shared online access to epidemiological data for general practitioners, disease prevention officers, emergency care services and microbiology laboratories changes clinical practice with regard to testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases. The main hypothesis is that "online access for general practitioner to epidemiological data about communicable diseases changes clinical practice for testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases".

Detailed description

We will collect data from general practitioners (GP) offices by installing local data extraction solutions. Each installation will build a local anonymous database of GP consultations extracted from the local electronic patient record (EPR) system. These anonymous data records will be used to produce local disease statistics before they are exported to a centralized server available in the Norwegian Health network. The centralized server will produce daily reports about the epidemiological situation in the patient population. We will combine the syndromic data from the GP offices with data from the microbiology laboratories on the hospitals that covers the study areas. The epidemiological data will be made available to the intervention areas in the study through web based and customized client applications. By using data extracted from the GP offices EPR databases and the microbiology laboratories we will investigate the study hypothesis.

Conditions

• Communicable Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Online disease surveillance data access	In the intervention areas we will give the study participants online access to the Snow disease surveillance system. The system will provide data about the incidents of respiratory and gastrointestinal communicable diseases in the patient population.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2010-11-02
• Last updated: 2017-02-16