Effectiveness and Safety of the Nursing Prescription in Acute Health Problems of Low Complexity. Randomized Clinical Trial
Effectiveness and Safety of the Nursing Prescription in Acute Health Problems of Low Complexity. Randomized Clinical Trial
Objective: To compare the efficacy/effectiveness of pharmacological nurse prescription with medical prescription in patients attended in a primary care center for minor acute health problems.
Scope of the study: Multicenter study, with the participation of 8 primary care centers of Catalonia.
Methodology: Randomized blind clinical trial, with experimental group receiving pharmacological nurse prescription and a control group receiving medical prescription. Subjects are individuals who request a same day consultation for minor acute pathologies and meet the selection criteria, with random assignment of 374 subjects, 187 per group.
The efficacy/effectiveness of the prescribed treatment will be considered as a no re-attendance during the following 72h and will be completed with the variables: information and knowledge of the treatment, adverse effects, compliance, satisfaction level and resolution of the health problem. The data collection is done 10 days after the visit by an ad-hoc telephone questionnaire of 11 items, previously tested. The analysis is done using the SPSS software version 21.0, obtaining data of descriptive, multivariate and inferential statistics.
Implications for practice: To evidence the equivalence of pharmacological nurse prescription with medical prescription for minor acute health problems
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