NCT03426475

Effect of Strategies to Improve General Practitioner-nurse Collaboration and Communication

Effects of Strategies to Improve General Practitioner-nurse Collaboration and Communication in Regard to Hospital Admissions of Nursing Home Residents.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 680 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Medical Center Goettingen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Previously,six measures were developed for a better collaboration of general practitioners and nurses in nursing homes in a qualitative multistep bottom-up process. These measures, summarised as the interprof ACT intervention, shall improve the flow of information and the communication between the involved parties and lead to more transparency and effectiveness regarding treatment decisions of nursing home residents.The major aim of this trial is to examine the clinical effectiveness of interprof ACT. The main hypothesis is that implementation of interprof ACT reduces the cumulative incidence of hospitalisations of nursing home residents within 12 months from 50% to 35% (15% absolute reduction).

Conditions

• Utilization of Medical Care by Nursing Home Residents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	interprof ACT measures	Definition of common goals between general practitioner and nursing staff, appointment of a contact person, support in assigning medication, use of name badges worn by GPs and nurses during visits, mandatory availability of contact person, standardized procedures for GPs home visits

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-12
• Primary completion: 2020-06-12
• Completion: 2021-04-22
• First posted: 2018-02-08
• Last updated: 2022-07-14

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Germany