Bronchiectasis: Evaluation of an Educational Intervention

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Bronchiectasis
• Interventions: Other: Primary Care Educational event

• Registration Number: NCT01315626
• Lead Sponsor: Hill-Rom

Brief Summary

A study of an educational intervention of primary care practice physicians to assist in the identification of patients who have Bronchiectasis and to assess the effectiveness of the specific didactic educational intervention targeting primary care physicians in the recognition of Bronchiectasis.

Detailed Description

A pilot study will be conducted for the purpose of evaluating an educational intervention (Description in Appendix A). As part of the educational intervention, primary care physician(s) will be trained in the use of an algorithm to guide assessment of patients seen with a respiratory chief complaint, and who have not previously been identified as having a diagnosis of BE. We propose an evaluation of three primary care practice(s) to compare the number of patients identified in three three-month periods as having a diagnosis of BE.

The evaluation periods will be as follows: Period 1) the three-month period immediately following the intervention, Period 2) the three-month period immediately preceding the intervention, Period 3) the three month period starting one year prior to the intervention.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2010-12-20
• Study Start: 2011-01
• Primary Completion: 2011-02
• Study Completion: 2011-02
• Status Verified: 2011-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-03-14
• Study First Posted: 2011-03-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-03-17
• Last Update Posted: 2015-03-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

1. Respiratory is the chief complaint
2. Patient > 35 years of age
3. Seen in practice for > 12 months

Exclusion Criteria

1. Prior diagnosis with bronchiectasis

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
3 months after educational event	Primary Care Educational event	3 months immediately after the education event. An active assessment will be preformed as per the proposed diagnostic algorithm (attachment B) Patients that meet all criteria in the algorithm are considered at risk for bronchiectasis and based on these criteria, physicians will be encouraged to order HRCT, and the number/ proportion of patients identified with BE will be noted and compared to the other time periods.
Seasonal prior year	Primary Care Educational event	As respiratory illnesses are commonly seasonal, an assessment of rate of Bronchiectasis diagnosis during the months of Period 2 in the year prior to the educational intervention will also be assessed as described in Period 1

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number / Percent of BE patients	18 months	The primary outcome for this study will be the number/proportion of patients that meet entrance criteria that are subsequently diagnosed with bronchiectasis.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HRCT patients	18 months	Secondary outcomes are the number/proportion of those subjects that undergo HRCT, and the number/proportion of subjects that are then identified as having Bronchiectasis.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Howard Rupard, MD Primary Care Practice; 🇺🇸 Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States