Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention in Family Practice: The Better Project

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Completed

Conditions: Chronic disease prevention - specifically cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
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Registration Number: ISRCTN07170460

Lead Sponsor: Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (Canada)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 1120

Inclusion Criteria

1. Strata 1:
1.1. Adult patients of the participating Family Physicians who are between the ages of 40 and 65, inclusive
1.2. Written informed consent to participate in the trial
2. Strata 2: Adults with moderate mental illness aged 40 to 65

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients who are unable to give written informed consent for reasons of language, literacy or competence
2. Patients who are not able to come to the family practice office
3. Off-site patients or non-active patients (no visit in the last 3 years) of the family physician

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Summary Quality Index (SQUID), measured at 6 months<br>A reliable and valid composite measure to track quality of care among primary care practice patients that use an electronic medical record (EMR). The primary analysis will be a comparison between the SQUID of the intervention group and the SQUID of the control group.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Assessment of the impact of the intervention in improving the quality of care, comparison made from baseline to 6 months follow-up (intervention group only)<br>2. Economic evaluation to examine the cost-effectiveness of the interventions<br>Outcomes will be measured at 12 months.