Effectiveness of training on vertigo/dizziness coding in primary care: a community-based cluster-randomized trial
Jenniffer Perez-Patiño, Oriol Cunillera-Puértolas, Albert Sanllorente-Melenchón, Yolanda Rando-Matos, Iván Villar-Balboa, Ricard Carrillo-Muñoz, José Luis Ballvé-Moreno, Eva Peguero-Rodríguez · 2026
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Perez-Patiño and colleagues tested whether training family doctors improves how vertigo gets diagnosed and coded in primary care records. Their 2026 trial randomized 20 health centers in southern Barcelona province, with 10 centers getting training and 10 serving as controls. Doctors in the training group took 14 hours of online lessons plus a single in-person session on vertigo management and coding.
The study drew on records covering 545,938 patients in 2019 and 513,638 in 2022, before and after the training period ended. Trained centers used specific vertigo diagnoses more often than controls, at 0.30 percent of patients against 0.25 percent for the comparison centers. The clearest gain was for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, a brief spinning sensation triggered by head movement, where adjusted odds of a specific code more than doubled in trained centers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jenniffer Perez-Patiño, Oriol Cunillera-Puértolas, Albert Sanllorente-Melenchón, Yolanda Rando-Matos, Iván Villar-Balboa, Ricard Carrillo-Muñoz, José Luis Ballvé-Moreno, Eva Peguero-Rodríguez |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |