Asthma & COPD Guideline Implementation

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title: Asthma and COPD Guideline Implementation: Lessons Learned on Recruitment of Primary Care Physicians to a Knowledge Translation Study

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a report of a protocol developed to improve asthma and COPD care in a primary care setting. The study was approved by an Ethics Committee and support by the Canadian Thoracic Society through an unrestrictive grant from GlaxoSmithKline. However, the study could not be done and the investigators report why, discussing the difficulties to perform such study. This information should be very useful to investigators planning this sort of study.

Clinical Trial Description

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the two most common chronic pulmonary ailments in Canada, affecting about 2.5 million and 750 thousand individuals, respectively. In the last two decades, the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) has successfully developed and disseminated evidence-based asthma and COPD clinical practice guidelines. However, evidence suggests that guideline implementation in these diseases remains inadequate.

Successful guideline implementation requires tailoring of selected strategies to settings and population-specific barriers, based on established theories and principles. In 2004, the CTS and its collaborators organized a symposium in Quebec City, to discuss existing barriers to respiratory guideline implementation and possible knowledge translation (KT) strategies. This was followed in the fall of 2007 by an expert-led workshop on guideline implementation strategies.

Herein, the investigators report the planned methods and outcome of a project which resulted from these meetings. This study sought to explore the effectiveness of a multi-faceted KT strategy in improving concordance with COPD and asthma guidelines among primary care physicians (PCPs) in Canada, but was aborted due to inadequate PCP recruitment. The investigators discuss the difficulties encountered in recruiting PCPs, factors which may have influenced recruitment, and alternative strategies. The goal of the investigators is to provide practical lessons to inform the design of future KT initiatives with similar interventions and/or a similar target audience. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Screening

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

• NCT number: NCT01766544
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Laval University
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 0
• Start date: September 2009
• Completion date: March 2010