Trial reportBMJ open2022
Impact of a phone call with a medical student/general practitioner team on morbidity of chronic patients during the first French COVID-19 lockdown (COVIQuest): a cluster randomised trial.
Trial report in BMJ open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04359875 (Does a Systematic Phone-call by a Medical Student/General Practitioner Team in Patients Suffering From a Chronic Condition During the COVID-19 Containment Period Impact One-month Hospitalization's Rate in France? A Cluster Randomized Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Does a Systematic Phone-call by a Medical Student/General Practitioner Team in Patients Suffering From a Chronic Condition During the COVID-19 Containment Period Impact One-month Hospitalization's Rate in France? A Cluster Randomized Trial
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- Adaptation of French general practitioners for the management of nursing home patients during COVID-19 in 2020: a multilevel analysis.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe first COVID-19 lockdown led to a significantly reduced access to healthcare, which may have increased decompensations in frail patients with chronic diseases, especially older patients living with a chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD) or a mental health disorder (MHD). The objective of COVIQuest was to evaluate whether a general practitioner (GP)-initiated phone call to patients with CVD and MHD during the COVID-19 lockdown could reduce the number of hospitalisation(s) over a 1-month period.
designThis is a cluster randomised controlled trial. Clusters were GPs from eight French regions.
participantsPatients ≥70 years old with chronic CVD (COVIQuest_CV subtrial) or ≥18 years old with MHD (COVIQuest_MH subtrial).
interventionsA standardised GP-initiated phone call aiming to evaluate patients' need for urgent healthcare, with a control group benefiting from usual care (ie, the contact with the GP was by the patient's initiative).
main outcome measuresHospital admission within 1 month after the phone call.
resultsIn the COVIQuest_CV subtrial, 131 GPs and 1834 patients were included in the intervention group and 136 GPs and 1510 patients were allocated to the control group. Overall, 65 (3.54%) patients were hospitalised in the intervention group vs 69 (4.57%) in the control group (OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.56 to 1.20; risk difference -0.77, 95% CI -2.28 to 0.74). In the COVIQuest_MH subtrial, 136 GPs and 832 patients were included in the intervention group and 131 GPs and 548 patients were allocated to the control group. Overall, 27 (3.25%) patients were hospitalised in the intervention group vs 12 (2.19%) in the control group (OR 1.52, 95% CI 0.82 to 2.81; risk difference 1.38, 95% CI 0.06 to 2.70).
conclusionA GP-initiated phone call may have been associated with more hospitalisations within 1 month for patients with MHD, but results lack robustness and significance depending on the statistical approach used. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT04359875.
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