Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Jill Morrison
ORCID ID
Contact details
Department of General Practice
University of Glasgow
4 Lancaster Crescent
Glasgow
G12 0RR
United Kingdom
+44 (0)141 211 1666
jmm4y@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
PSI02-09
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
How do clinical guidelines affect the management of infertility in general practice? Clinical guidelines were developed locally by consensus and informed by available evidence. Their dissemination included educational meetings.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Pregnancy and childbirth: Pregnancy
Intervention
The guidelines were evaluated in a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). General practices in the intervention arm received the guidelines and those in the control arm were told they would receive them after one year.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
1. The time from presentation to referral
2. Investigations completed in general practice
3. Number and content of hospital outpatient visits
4. The time to reach a management plan
5. Costs for referrals from the two groups
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/01/1997
Overall trial end date
31/12/2000
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
The sample comprised all general practices in Greater Glasgow Health Board Area (n = 621,at the beginning of the study). All referrals to each of five hospitals in Glasgow managing infertility were collected for one year.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
689
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/01/1997
Recruitment end date
31/12/2000
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Department of General Practice
Glasgow
G12 0RR
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHS R&D 'Time-Limited' National Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Primary and Secondary Care Interface National Research and Development Programme (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11375232
Publication citations
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Results
Morrison J, Carroll L, Twaddle S, Cameron I, Grimshaw J, Leyland A, Baillie H, Watt G, Pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate guidelines for the management of infertility across the primary care-secondary care interface., BMJ, 2001, 322, 7297, 1282-1284.