[PDF] Top 20 Effectiveness of a tailored intervention to improve cardiovascular risk management in primary care: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

... interaction and (4) incentives and recourses. The first heading ‘health professional-related factors’ included four determinants: (1) clinical inertia, (2) encourage- ment of general practitioners and practice nurses to ... See full document

... of care for patients with chronic diseases because they have been shown to positively affect health outcomes, including disease-specific outcomes, quality of life, self-management behaviour and ... See full document

... the protocol, clinical training and support programmes for the physiotherapists in the study intervention group will mirror the STarT Back Trial in the UK ...stratified care are ... See full document

... health care is delivered through general ...multidisciplinary primary care teams that include doctors, nurses, and health care assistants ... See full document

... this study is to investigate whether this kind of treatment could be fea- sible for primary care patients regardless of anxiety diag- nosis and co-morbidity, striving to test the effectiveness ... See full document

... This trial is designed with an implementation focus and has several distinctive aspects: there is a high prevalence of undiag- nosed and uncontrolled population with dyslipidaemia and high CVD risk in ... See full document

... The study gives information about the relevant barriers for improvement and whether they differ between ...are tailored to prospectively identified barriers for improvement in the local context of GPs could ... See full document

... Nkateko trial will test the effectiveness of clinic-based lay health workers (LHWs) in supporting hypertension ...cluster randomised controlled trial based in the Agincourt subdistrict ... See full document

... Nkateko trial will test the effectiveness of clinic-based lay health workers (LHWs) in supporting hypertension ...cluster randomised controlled trial based in the Agincourt subdistrict ... See full document

... Clinical effectiveness For our primary outcome, we will calculate the effect of the multifaceted intervention on parent-reported mean earache score over the first 3 days using a linear mixed ... See full document

... Data on the nurses' actual adherence to the components of the strategy will be gathered by the nurses themselves by means of prospective self-reports. Nurses will use a short standardised questionnaire after each ... See full document

... the intervention to be compared with many alter- native uses of existing NHS ...selected risk factors specific to the following BMI related diseases; currently hypertension and stroke, diabetes mellitus ... See full document

... Health care costs will be compared between the three ...social care and lost employment will also be compared between the ...cost- effectiveness acceptability curves, using the net-benefit approach ... See full document

... CVD risk change ...10-year risk to be ...CVD risk score of ...present intervention provides both coordination and self-management, and also includes management of CVD ...analyse ... See full document

... use trial records and observations to estimate the costs of interven- tion ...health care resource utilisation will be gathered from case record ...EQ-5D, primary economic outcome, and the SF-6D ... See full document

... The effectiveness of this group intervention program of eight sessions will be tested in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) with N = 182 adolescents aged 12 – 16, allocated to either ... See full document

... the primary analysis, our assumption that 46 % of overweight/obese patients would have been offered a weight management intervention at baseline was a huge overestimate, the proportion observed in ... See full document

... cluster randomised design will be ...to improve motivation to eat despite a range of barriers ( pain, mucositis, nausea, reduced or no saliva, taste changes and appetite loss), and to provide patients with ... See full document

... the effectiveness of self-help interventions for anxiety and depression (Bower, Richards and Lovell, 2001; Cuijpers, 1997; Gould and Clum, 1993; Marrs, 1995; Scogin, Hanson and Welsh, 2003) and a review of ... See full document

... the risk- benefit balance for ECT and potentially make it more ac- cessible to a wider range of ...STAR*D study in the United States [3] which showed that only a quarter to a third of patients remit with ... See full document