Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Anemia Management in Pre-operative Care (iAnemia)

July 22, 2020 updated by: Intelligence Anesthesia

Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Anemia Management in Pre-operative Care: Feasibility & Validation Study

Anemia need to be diagnosed and treated, following several guidelines. However, the complexity of these recommendations leads to low compliance and to unnecessary and harmful per- and postoperative blood transfusion.

In order to improve practices and regarding the complexity of the guidelines, the latest European Consensus Conference recommends the use of decision support systems for the management of preoperative anemia.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The World Health Organization defines anemia as a hemoglobin level of less than 13 g/dL in adult men and less than 12 g/dL in women.

The cause of these anemias is most often deficient with 17% iron deficiency. This deficiency is related to age, inflammatory diseases, blood loss, and absorption disorders mainly. Anemia must be diagnosed preoperatively and treated.

To reduce transfusion in the perioperative period there are various possibilities: increase of the preoperative erythrocyte mass, reduction of losses, use of the blood that has been applied.

The impact of these preoperative strategies can be considerable. In their work, Beattie and al demonstrates that transfusion is associated with an increase in mortality at 90 days, proportional to the volume transfused, with certainly a higher risk in fragile subjects. More recently, an American registry of more than 220,000 patients showed that 30% had preoperative anemia. This anemia not only significantly increased mortality, but all causes of comorbidity were aggravated in an anemic patient.

However, the complexity of these recommendations leads to low compliance and to unnecessary and harmful per- and postoperative blood transfusion.

In order to improve practices and regarding the complexity of the guidelines, the latest European Consensus Conference recommends the use of decision support systems for the management of preoperative anemia.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Anticipated)

1000

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

Anesthesiologist:

  • Less than one year experience in anesthesia
  • 2 to 5 years of experience
  • 5 to 10 years of experience
  • 10 to 20 years of experience
  • More than 20 years of experience

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Anesthesiologist: anesthesiologists, resident/fellow physician anesthesiologists.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unfinished questionnaire.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Control Group
Anesthesiologists would have to respond to an online questionnaire about 10 hypotheticals clinical situations regarding patient blood management.
Clinical Decision Support Group
Anesthesiologists would have to respond to an online questionnaire about 10 hypotheticals clinical situations regarding patient blood management helped by dedicated clinical decision support systems for patient blood management (iAnemia, Intelligence Anesthesia).
iAnemia permits to display the appropriate guideline using several inputs about a patient: age, type and delay of the surgery, gender, hemoglobin level, and iron deficiency status.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Average global score obtained for the two groups.
Time Frame: Up to 24 weeks
The mean number of correct answers (out of possible 10);
Up to 24 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Average subcategories score obtained for the two groups.
Time Frame: Up to 24 weeks
The mean number of correct answers (out of possible 10);
Up to 24 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

September 1, 2020

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

September 1, 2020

Study Completion (Anticipated)

December 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 18, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 22, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

July 23, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 23, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 22, 2020

Last Verified

July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB 00010254-2020-131

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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