A multi-centre community intervention trial to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of Emergency Care Practitoners
Completed
- Conditions
- Emergency CareNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN22085282
- Lead Sponsor
- HS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development programme (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 7200
Inclusion Criteria
All patients who are eligible to be seen by an ECP and present to the appropriate service with a clinical condition that the ECP either actually manages or would manage if there was an ECP available will be included.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who are not eligible to be attended by an ECP.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient outcomes:<br>1. Experiences and satisfaction <br>2. Patient health status <br>3. Quality and safety of care <br><br>Workforce outcomes:<br>1. Impact of the ECP roles on self and others
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Effect of ECPs on overall performances of local service, strategic impact and economic evaluation<br>2. Consolidation of research methodologies for evaluating role substitution in health care, costs and system level impact