Translating The GOLD COPD Guidelines Into Primary Care Practice

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

In brief

This project will evaluate the translation of the Gold (the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) COPD guidelines into primary care practice. During phase I, a needs assessment will evaluate barriers and facilitators to implementation of COPD guidelines into clinical practice through focus groups of primary care patients and providers. Using formative evaluation and feedback from the focus groups, three tools will be developed, refined and pilot tested. The effectiveness of the materials developed in phase I will be tested in phase II (a randomized clinical trial conducted with one year of intervention within non-academic primary care practices) regarding physician performance of COPD guideline implementation and improvement in the clinically relevant outcomes (appropriate screening, diagnosis and management of COPD) compared to usual care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01237561

Run by

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island

People needed

3593

Starts

2010-10-01

Expected to finish

2013-10-25

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-04

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients 40 years or older
• Seen at least once in the past 2 years (active patients) by their PCP
• And/or 40 years of age and less than 81 years of age who smoke.

You may not qualify if…

• < 40 years of age

Where it is running

• Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island — Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

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