Learning Health System for Asthma

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing a National Learning Health System for Asthma to Reduce the Risk of Asthma Attacks and the Risk of Asthma Hospitalisations and Deaths

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03000491
• Other study ID #: AC16078
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 6, 2016
• Last updated: January 20, 2017
• Start date: December 2016
• Est. completion date: February 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2016
• Source: University of Edinburgh
• Contact: Colin Simpson, BSc MSc PhD
• Phone: 0131 650 4151
• Email: c.simpson[@]ed.ac.uk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study forms an initial phase of work aimed at developing a learning health system (LHS), whereby data relating to asthma is extracted from patient electronic health records (EHRs) across Scotland, analysed to explore variations in clinical practice and then shared with general practices to highlight any improvements that can be made so that they can better support people with asthma.

If successful, the investigators hope to progress to the main quality improvement phase involving an increased number of practices and then incrementally build this up to cover the whole of Scotland.

Description:

The UK has amongst the highest rates of asthma in the world as well as some of the poorest health outcomes from asthma.

Investigations into asthma deaths in the UK have found that the way patients were managed in the time leading up to their death could be improved significantly and half of asthma deaths are potentially avoidable. For most people with asthma, symptoms can come and go and sometimes be erratic. To prevent these symptoms, there is a window of opportunity to intervene with the appropriate care. This window occurs between when someone experiences early symptoms like night cough or wheeze and when they experience a full-blown asthma attack.

Most people with asthma receive care primarily in their general practice. General practices have a history of using health information technology to care for their patients. The use of this technology over time has resulted in the creation of rich electronic healthcare data. Through this rich data there are opportunities to create a system whereby clinical management can be benchmarked and improvements highlighted.

This study forms an initial phase of work aimed at developing a learning health system (LHS), whereby data relating to asthma is extracted from patient electronic health records (EHRs) across Scotland, analysed to explore variations in clinical practice and then shared with general practices to highlight any improvements that can be made so that they can better support people with asthma.

If successful, the investigators hope to progress to the main quality improvement phase involving an increased number of practices and then incrementally build this up to cover the whole of Scotland.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 750000
• Est. completion date: February 2017
• Est. primary completion date: February 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients registered with general practices across Scotland.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients from general practices that do not to opt-in to the study.

• Patients with a READ code recording dissent from use of their records for research purposes.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University ot Edinburgh	Edinburgh

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Edinburgh	NHS Lothian

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Variations in clinical practice as assessed by data relating to asthma extracted from patient electronic health records.		At study completion (3 months)