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A Cluster Package Intervention to Promote an Evidence-based Use of PSA-tests in General Practice

  • Recruiting
  • Health services research
  • Interventional
  • Randomized
  • Behavioral
  • University of Copenhagen
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Study Purpose

It is widely acknowledged that prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing can lead to false-positives, overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer. The current national clinical guidelines only recommend the test to a small group of patients and does not recommend neither systematic nor opportunistic screening for prostate cancer with the test. The aim of this cluster randomized trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a complex intervention aimed at improving the use of evidence based practice when using prostate specific antigen tests in general practice. The complex intervention in this study is a so called cluster package which is meeting material to a quality cluster meeting as almost every general practitioner is a member of a quality cluster. Therefore, the investigators have developed a cluster package aimed at promoting an evidence-based use of the prostate specific antigen test to general practitioners.

Intervention

Behavioral : Podcast

Behavioral : Cluster meeting

Behavioral : Hand-out material 1

Behavioral : Hand-out material 2

Eligibility Requirements

info icon Quality clusters with a cluster coordinator

info icon Quality clusters willing to participate in a cluster meeting with PSA as a theme in 2025.

info icon Minimum age: 18

info icon Quality clusters who already planned their cluster meetings in 2025.

info icon Quality clusters unwilling to await allocation before planning their cluster meetings in 2025.

info icon Quality clusters participating in the pilot study

Recruiting status

Recruiting

Estimated enrollment

50

 
Study start date

Sep 09, 2024

Study end date

Jan 01, 2026

Last updated

Mar 23, 2025

Primary purpose

Health services research

Design

Interventional

Intervention

Behavioral

Study phase

NA

Allocation

Randomized

 

Sponsor:

University of Copenhagen

Collaborator:

Kvalitet i Almen Praksis (KiAP)

Investigator:

Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Associate professor

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Publications

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Websites

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NCT06748456

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