Evaluation of a tailored implementation strategy to improve the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: a study protocol of a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major health problem, strongly related to smoking. Despite the publication of practice guidelines on prevention and treatment, not all patients with the disease receive the recommended healthcare, particularly with regard to smoking cessation advice where applicable. We have developed a tailored implementation strategy for enhancing general practitioners' adherence to the disease management guidelines. The primary aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of this tailored implementation intervention on general practitioners' adherence to guidelines.

Methods/design

A pragmatic two-arm cluster randomized trial has been planned to compare care following the implementation of tailored interventions of four recom

SUBMITTER: Godycki-Cwirko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4017831 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature