NCT05976061

High- and Low-risk Actinic Keratosis Referrals to Secondary Care

High- and Low-risk Actinic Keratosis Referrals to Secondary Care. Implementation of the General Practitioners Guidelines for Actinic Keratosis Patients.

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,379 (actual)
• Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the implementation of the General Practitioners guidelines 'Suspicious Skin Lesions' and investigated whether their publication and implementation has led to a reduction in the proportion of referrals of low-risk patients with actinic keratosis to secondary care, after publication of the General Practitioners guidelines and implementation activities.

Detailed description

In the Dutch healthcare system, patients are first examined by the general practitioner who decides whether a referral to a dermatologist is indicated. Both general practitioners and dermatologists can diagnose and treat patients with actinic keratosis. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish which patients the general practitioner should refer to a dermatologist and which patients are suitable to be treated by the general practitioner. This retrospective data study evaluates the proportion of low risk actinic keratosis patients in 2019 en 2018.

Conditions

• Actinic Keratoses

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2023-08-04
• Last updated: 2025-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands