Improving Preventive Service Delivery at Adult Complete Health Check-Ups

This study has been completed.

Sponsored by:	St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Information provided by:	St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00316394

Purpose

To determine the effectiveness of a single checklist reminder form to improve the delivery of preventive health services at adult health check-ups in a family practice setting.

Condition	Intervention
Preventive Health Care	Device: Preventive Care Checklist Form

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Improving Preventive Service Delivery at Adult Complete Health Check-Ups: the Preventive Health Evidence-Based Recommendation Form (PERFORM) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Further study details as provided by St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Rates and relative risks (RR) of the performance of 13 preventive health maneuvers at baseline and post-intervention and the percentage of up-to-date preventive health services delivered per patient were compared between the two groups.

Study Start Date:	November 2002
Estimated Study Completion Date:	March 2003

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	21 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Adults older than 21 years of age who had an complete health check-up completed at the clinic during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

Charts were excluded if the patient was younger than 21, an investigator completed the assessment or the encounter was disease/illness specific.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00316394

Locations

Canada, Ontario
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1W8

Sponsors and Collaborators

St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Vinita Dubey, MD MPH

St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	02-178
Study First Received:	April 18, 2006
Last Updated:	October 10, 2006
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00316394
Health Authority:	Canada: Ethics Review Committee

Keywords provided by St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto:

Preventive Health Care
Annual Health Check-up
Primary Care
Reminders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009