Snow Disease Surveillance System Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 200
- 主要终点
- Earlier diagnosis and treatment for communicable diseases
研究概览
简要总结
The study investigates whether shared online access to epidemiological data for general practitioners, disease prevention officers, emergency care services and microbiology laboratories changes clinical practice with regard to testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases. The main hypothesis is that "online access for general practitioner to epidemiological data about communicable diseases changes clinical practice for testing, diagnosing and treatment of communicable diseases".
详细描述
We will collect data from general practitioners (GP) offices by installing local data extraction solutions. Each installation will build a local anonymous database of GP consultations extracted from the local electronic patient record (EPR) system. These anonymous data records will be used to produce local disease statistics before they are exported to a centralized server available in the Norwegian Health network. The centralized server will produce daily reports about the epidemiological situation in the patient population. We will combine the syndromic data from the GP offices with data from the microbiology laboratories on the hospitals that covers the study areas. The epidemiological data will be made available to the intervention areas in the study through web based and customized client applications.
By using data extracted from the GP offices EPR databases and the microbiology laboratories we will investigate the study hypothesis.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Volunteering General Practitioner (GP) working in a GP office
排除标准
- •The GP does not use a Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system
结局指标
主要结局
Earlier diagnosis and treatment for communicable diseases
时间窗: Measured at the end of the data collection period, approx. 1.5 year. (December 2012)
General practitioners (GP) have three possible decisions in a consultation with a patient; 1) treat on suspicion, 2) take a sample, 3) wait and see whether the patient recovers or get worse, or 4) a combination of 1 and 2. In situations with decision 3 (wait and see) the patient may return to a consultation later on. The hypothesis is that online access to epidemiological data from the local patient population will enable GPs to make the right decision more often based on knowledge about the epidemiological situation in the patient population.
次要结局
- Earlier detection of local disease outbreaks(Measured at the end of the data collection period, approx. 1.5 year. (December 2012))
- Lower number of infected during disease outbreaks(Measured at the end of the data collection period, approx. 1.5 year. (December 2012))
- Impact on health service costs(Measured at the end of the data collection period, approx. 1.5 year. (December 2012))