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'SPRING'-Study: "Subfertility Guidelines: Patient Related Implementation in the Netherlands Among Gynaecologists"

Netherlands5,200 participantsStarted 2005-10

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this study is to compare two different strategies to implement the existing Guideline programme on Subfertility, as issued by the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NVOG). Therefore, an innovative patient-directed strategy will be compared to a control strategy and effectiveness, costs and feasibility of both strategies will be assessed.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 80 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * each patient, male or female, visiting the OPD for a subfertility related problem or treatment * each patient admitted to the hospital with complications of an infertility treatment Exclusion Criteria: * patients receiving insemination with donor sperm * patients receiving ICSI treatment * patients who are non-Dutch speaking or understand too little Dutch to fill out the questionnaires

What they're measuring

Extent of guideline adherence after approximately one year (measured by a specific set of guideline-derived indicators, formulated beforehand by the research group)

Timeframe: half year after intervention

Costs of both Implementation strategies

Timeframe: half year after intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00119925

SponsorRadboud University Medical Center

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2009-02

Contact for this trial

Selma M Mourad, MD

+31-24-3610590 s.mourad@kwazo.umcn.nl

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