Provision of feedback to GPs to increase suspected cancer referrals
Completed
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN11785486
- Lead Sponsor
- Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 546
Inclusion Criteria
1. GP Practices
2. Operating within Greater Manchester
3. Operating in 2017
4. Data is available in the PHE Fingertips Cancer Services data
5. For the experimental sample: the practice is referring fewer patients with suspected cancer via the 2WW than the 2015/16 England average
Exclusion Criteria
1. Outside the Greater Manchester area
2. Within the Greater Manchester area who are performing above the England average are excluded from
the experimental group but included as additional control observations
3. In Greater Manchester for whom publicly available data is not available on the PHE Fingertips website
4. For whom data on their referral rate was unavailable from provider trusts or referral centres
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method GP referral for suspected cancer is measured using the age-and-sex-adjusted ratio at 4 weeks after the receipt of intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcome measures