Improving the continuity and coordination of ambulatory care through feedback and facilitated dialogue —a study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial to evaluate the ACD study (Accountable Care in Germany)
The objectives of this study are to (1) identify informal networks of physicians who treat the same patient population, (2) provide these physicians with feedback on their network and patients, using routine data and (3) give the physicians the opportunity to meet one another in facilitated network meetings.MethodsThe Accountable Care Deutschland (ACD) study is a prospective, non-blinded, cluster-randomised trial comprising a process and economic evaluation of informal networks among 12,525 GPs and office-based specialists and their 1.9 million patients. The units of allocation are the informal networks, which will be rand...
Source: Trials - September 15, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: clinical trials
Comprehensive support for families with parental cancer (Family-SCOUT), evaluation of a complex intervention: study protocol for a non-randomized controlled trial
DiscussionThe results will allow to test the effectiveness and efficiency of the intervention for the target group. The first experience with the implementation of the intervention in model regions will be available. The evaluation results will serve as the basis to assess the need of including the intervention in the catalog of services of the statutory health insurance funds in Germany.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04186923. Retrospectively registered on 4 December 2019. (Source: Trials)
Source: Trials - September 15, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: clinical trials
Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on a Health Care System: Case Study of the CirculatORy System in LiThuania
Condition: Cardiovascular Diseases Interventions: Other: Data collection on outpatient care; Other: Data collection on hospitalisation; Other: Data collection on cardiovascular mortality; Other: Data collection of patients presenting to the tertiary care centre with acute coronary syndrome Sponsors: Vilnius University; Institute of Hygiene, Lithuania; National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health, Lithuania; Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos Completed (Source: ClinicalTrials.gov)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov - August 25, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: clinical trials
Increasing Health Insurance Enrollment Among Uninsured Americans
Condition: Health Behavior Intervention: Behavioral: Letter intervention Sponsor: Office of Evaluation Sciences Completed (Source: ClinicalTrials.gov)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov - August 18, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: clinical trials
