Study Status: Terminated
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: The European Quality of Care Pathways Study: The Impact of a Care Pathway for Proximal Femur Fracture (PFF) : an International Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial."
Brief Summary:
Care pathways, a complex intervention to (re)organise, standardize and evaluate care processes, are used worldwide and in different kinds of settings. Although their international use, the impact is unclear. The European Quality of Care Pathways Study is the first international cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on the effect of care pathways for proximal femur fracture patients (PFF).
The hypothesis is that teams who work with care pathways for PFF patients deliver care that is more compliant to evidence based key interventions, have better patient outcomes and higher scores on team indicators than teams who do not work with care pathways.