Strengthening Care for Rural Children (SC4RC): the impact on quality of care for childhood conditions in rural Victoria and New South Wales.

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Primary Paediatric Healthcare; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12623000550606
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Melbourne

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-05-23
• Last Update Posted: 9 September 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

Inclusion Criteria

To be included in the study, GP practices must:
•Be located within either the Western Victoria PHN (WVHN) and Murrumbidgee PHN (MPHN)
•Have, as a preference, Best Practice or Medical Director 3 as their practice software
•Be accredited or working towards accreditation
In addition, GP practices must be willing to:
•Manage bookings and reminders for paediatrician appointments;
•Install GRHANITE software GP extraction of medical record data
•Record coded diagnosis and referral activities for all children and young people (<18 years)
•Complete all evaluation requirements, including GP surveys;
•Receive regular GP support visits from the project team; and
•Provide protected time for staff and clinicians to participate in grant activity, e.g. case discussion sessions.

We will include all GPs at participating GPs clinics who:
•Sign a memorandum of understanding between the project and the practice
•Sign a Consent Form
•See patients aged 0-18 years
•Must provide a minimum of one month of referral data

We will invite all practice managers and all practice administrative staff for clinics participating in the trial.

All families that present to the GP practices and receive care for their child aged 0-18 years of age during the data collection periods will be eligible to participate in the family experience surveys. In order to be invited to participate in semi-structured interviews families must present to the GP practices and receive care for their child aged 0-18 years of age during the intervention period. These family members must sign their consent to be contacted for a follow up interview in family surveys and must have attended a co-consultation with a GP and paediatrician.

Exclusion Criteria

GP practices will be excluded from participating if:
•Do not have any active patients aged 0-18 years attending their clinic in the past 12 months

Practice managers who are also participating GPs will not be further recruited to participate as a practice manager.

For families, exclusion criteria will include:
•Children or young people who present to the GP practice without a parent/guardian
•Insufficient capabilities to complete the survey in the offered languages

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified