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Evaluation of a tailored implementation strategy to improve the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: a study protocol of a cluster randomized trial.

Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, Izabela Zakowska, Katarzyna Kosiek, Michel Wensing, Jaroslaw Krawczyk, Anna Kowalczyk

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readPragmatic Clinical TrialRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Trials, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01893476 (Tailored Implementation for Chronic Diseases.), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT01893476 nacompletednot on this map

Tailored Implementation for Chronic Diseases.

TypeinterventionalSponsorMedical University of LodzRan2013 to 2015Enrolled540ConditionsChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)ArmsImplementation educational programme
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Strategies to improve smoking cessation rates in primary care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  5. Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maciek Godycki-CwirkoCentre for Family and Community Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, 20 Kopcinskiego Street, Lodz 90-153, Poland. maciej.godycki-cwirko@umed.lodz.pl.
Izabela Zakowska
Katarzyna Kosiek
Michel Wensing
Jaroslaw Krawczyk
Anna Kowalczyk
Medical University of Lodz · PLRadboud University Medical Center · NL

Funding

Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major health problem, strongly related to smoking. Despite the publication of practice guidelines on prevention and treatment, not all patients with the disease receive the recommended healthcare, particularly with regard to smoking cessation advice where applicable. We have developed a tailored implementation strategy for enhancing general practitioners' adherence to the disease management guidelines. The primary aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of this tailored implementation intervention on general practitioners' adherence to guidelines. METHODS/

designA pragmatic two-arm cluster randomized trial has been planned to compare care following the implementation of tailored interventions of four recommendations in COPD patients against usual care. The study will involve 18 general practices (9 in the intervention group and 9 in the control group) in Poland, each with at least 80 identified (at the baseline) patients with diagnosed COPD. The nine control practices will provide usual care without any interventions. Tailored interventions to implement four recommendations will be delivered in the remaining nine practices. At follow-up after nine months, data will be collected for all 18 general practices. The primary outcome measure is physicians' adherence to all four recommendations: brief anti-smoking advice, dyspnea assessment, care checklist utilization and demonstration to patients of correct inhaler use. This measurement will be based on data extracted from identified patients' records. Additionally, we will survey and interview patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease about the process of care. DISCUSSION: The results of this trial will be directly applicable to primary care in Poland and add to the growing body of evidence on interventions to improve chronic illness care.

trial registrationThis trial has been registered with Clinical Trials Protocol Registration System. TRIAL NUMBER: NCT01893476.

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Research DesignChecklistClinical ProtocolsDyspneaGeneral PractitionersGuideline AdherenceHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansNebulizers and VaporizersPatient Education as TopicPolandPractice Guidelines as TopicPractice Patterns, Physicians'Primary Health CarePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveQuality Improvement

Identifiers

PMID24708623
PMCPMC4017831
OpenAlexW2147385767

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