Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Deborah Kirklin
ORCID ID
Contact details
Royal Free and University College Medical School
Centre for Medical Humanities
Archway Campus
2nd Floor Holborn Union Building
2-10 Highgate Hill
London
N19 5LW
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7288 3467/3597
d.Kirklin@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0530128900
Study information
Scientific title
Improving the quality of information dermatologists receive from primary care: a multidisciplinary educational outreach
Acronym
Study hypothesis
This study will investigate whether General Practitioners and Primary Care Nurses who take part in a multidisciplinary educational outreach intervention, designed to foster observational skills, display an increased accuracy of identification of diagnostic features in images of pigmented skin lesions. It will assess the feasibility of delivering such an intervention in primary care. Any improvement in observational skills would have direct implications for the quality of information received by dermatologists from primary care, with the potential to allow for improved prioritisation of out-patient appointments, and shorter waiting times for patients with potentially cancerous skin lesions.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Practice level-randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
GP practices
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use contact details to request a participant information sheet
Condition
Dermatologist training; developing observational skills
Intervention
12 practices will be randomised to either:
1. Intervention group (educational outreach)
2. Control group
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
This pilot project, based in primary care, addresses the national priority of Cancer Service Provision, and focuses on the importance of the flow of good information from primary care to secondary care, when referrals of suspicious skin lesions are made. Whilst this study focuses on one area of clinical practice - dermatology referrals from primary to secondary care, it is anticipated that any improvements in observational skills would have widespread implications for clinical practice. It is anticipated that the clinical area of concern of this work be broadened in further studies.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
13/02/2003
Overall trial end date
12/02/2004
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
12 General Practices in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey
Participant type
Health professional
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
12
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
13/02/2003
Recruitment end date
12/02/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Royal Free and University College Medical School
London
N19 5LW
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Research council
Funder name
North Central London Research Consortium (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
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list