Improving Preventive Service Delivery at Adult Complete Health Check-Ups

Preventive Health Care Clinical Trial

Official title:

Improving Preventive Service Delivery at Adult Complete Health Check-Ups: the Preventive Health Evidence-Based Recommendation Form (PERFORM) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00316394
• Other study ID #: 02-178
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 18, 2006
• Last updated: October 10, 2006
• Start date: November 2002
• Est. completion date: March 2003

Study information

• Verified date: April 2006
• Source: St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: March 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

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.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Preventive Health Care

Intervention

Device:
• Preventive Care Checklist Form

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	St. Michael's Hospital	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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.