Clinical trial NCT05986110: Analysis of the Results Obtained in the Regular Clinical Practice of a Clinical Ultrasound Classroom For Primary Care Physicians As a Formative Intervention System
Official title: Analysis of the Results Obtained in the Regular Clinical Practice of a Clinical Ultrasound Classroom For Primary Care Physicians As a Formative Intervention System
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Medicine
Clinical Ultrasound
Primary Care
Keywords: Family medicine
Clinical ultrasound
Primary care
Resolution improvement
Lead sponsor: Fundacion para la Investigacion y Formacion en Ciencias de la Salud
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-14
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The objectives of the project are to evaluate the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the degree of satisfaction of a methodology based on theoretical-practical training in abdominal and thyroid clinical ultrasound of family doctors, in the urban area of Primary Health Care, and to evaluate the benefit obtained by patients over 60 years of age included in the program, analyzing the degree of satisfaction, resolution time of the reason for consultation and decrease in the number of referrals to the second level of care, analyzing the differences by gender.

Detailed description: The objectives of the project are to evaluate the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the degree of satisfaction of a methodology based on theoretical-practical training in abdominal and thyroid clinical ultrasound of family doctors, in the urban area of Primary Health Care, and to evaluate the benefit obtained by patients over 60 years of age included in the program, analyzing the degree of satisfaction, resolution time of the reason for consultation and decrease in the number of referrals to the second level of care, analyzing the differences by gender.

The expected impact is that the doctors participating in the project learn to perform abdominal and thyroid ultrasound and continue to perform them during the year that their participation in the project lasts, and independently thereafter. In addition, this will allow the reduction of interconsultations to the specialized care and emergencies of their patients whose primary care physicians perform ultrasound scans in their health center.

Its application in clinical practice will be reflected because doctors who perform ultrasound scans in their primary care centers will increase their diagnostic certainty in real consultation time on many occasions, thereby reducing interconsultations at the second level of care, and when they have to refer a patient at this level, they will do so in a more documented manner.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To work in selected health centers.
* To have assigned to more than 800 patients.
* Not have previous training in regulated clinical ultrasound.
* Sign a commitment to Attendance at least 80% of the training program sessions.
* Sign the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not meeting any of the inclusion criteria.
* Not signing the informed consent.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of knowledge and skills
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Salamanca
country: Spain
facility: Primary Care Research Unit of Salamanca
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