Clinical trial · Observational
High- and Low-risk Actinic Keratosis Referrals to Secondary Care
High- and Low-risk Actinic Keratosis Referrals to Secondary Care. Implementation of the General Practitioners Guidelines for Actinic Keratosis Patients.
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This study evaluates the implementation of the General Practitioners guidelines 'Suspicious Skin Lesions' and investigated whether their publication and implementation has led to a reduction in the proportion of referrals of low-risk patients with actinic keratosis to secondary care, after publication of the General Practitioners guidelines and implementation activities.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actinic Keratoses | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
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Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- label
- Low risk patients
- description
- Low risk actinic keratosis patients referred by the general practitioner and diagnosed as actinic keratosis by the dermatologist in 2018 and 2019.
- label
- High risk patients
- description
- High risk actinic keratosis patients referred by the general practitioner and diagnosed as actinic keratosis by the dermatologist in 2018 and 2019.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Change in proportion of low-risk actinic keratosis patients among all actinic keratosis patients.
- timeFrame
- 2018 compared to 2019 (2 years)
- description
- The change in proportion of low-risk actinic keratosis patients among all actinic keratosis patients referred by the general practitioner to the dermatologist. The definition of low-risk actinic keratosis patients was based on the General Practitioners guidelines 'Suspicious skin lesions' (published in 2017). Patients were defined as low-risk when they were not immunocompromised, did not have a cutaneous malignancy in their medical history, did not have previous treatment or if they did not have extensive lesions.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * patients of 18 years and older * referred to dermatologist for suspicion of actinic keratosis and diagnosed as actinic keratosis by the dermatologist * treated at MaastrichtUMC+ or TergooiHospital Exclusion Criteria: * different diagnosis than actinic keratosis * referred by a different specialist than the general practitioner * referred with multiple problems * referred for a second opinion * if the patients was treated as different diagnosis than actinic keratosis by general practitioner
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