N/A
N=504
Service Development: Assessing Non-attendance Rates in Outpatient Clinics
Asthma · Sleep Apnea Syndromes · Tuberculosis · COPD
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00129649 ↗Enrolled (actual)
504
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Feb 2020
Primary outcome: Primary: Attendance Rates at Respiratory Outpatient Clinics — 183; 89 Participants — p=0.004
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Telephone reminder call (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Imperial College London
- Primary completion
- Oct 2006
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Attendance Rates at Respiratory Outpatient Clinics |
183; 89 | 0.004 sig |
Summary
Many studies have shown a high non-attendance rate in hospital outpatient clinics. The investigators have found a non-attendance rate of 25% in their asthma clinics and would like to investigate whether a reminder phone call will improve attendance rates. Patients will be randomised into two groups; one group will receive a reminder phone call one week prior to their hospital consultation and the other group will be managed in the standard manner (i.e. no reminder of any sort). The phone calls will be carried out on a Friday afternoon by a respiratory nurse specialist and a research officer for two asthma clinics based on a Wednesday morning and a Thursday afternoon.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients with appointments booked for 2 respiratory outpatient clinics
Exclusion criteria
Patients likely to only need one appointment
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00129649). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.