Clinical Reminders in Test Reports to Improve Guideline Compliance
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01792544 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : February 15, 2013
Last Update Posted : April 28, 2016
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Echocardiography | Other: Statement Other: No Statement | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1706 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Triple (Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Health Services Research |
Study Start Date : | July 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 2013 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | July 2015 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Statement
A statement is added to the echocardiography report describing if and when a follow-up echocardiogram is recommended. The statement may be positive (e.g. follow-up recommended in 6 months) or negative (e.g. no follow-up recommended).
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Other: Statement |
Experimental: No Statement
No statement is added to the echocardiography report
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Other: No Statement |
- Inappropriate follow-up [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Performance of a follow-up echocardiogram when it was not indicated or not performing for a follow-up echocardiogram when it was indicated.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Older Adult |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
All patients undergoing echocardiography where the physician creating the report feels a comment is appropriate regarding when follow-up should or should not occur.
Exclusion Criteria:
None.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01792544
United States, California | |
VA Palo Alto HCS | |
Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304 |
Responsible Party: | Paul Heidenreich, Staff Physician, VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01792544 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
SUIRB-021780 |
First Posted: | February 15, 2013 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | April 28, 2016 |
Last Verified: | April 2016 |