PECARN Emergency Care Registry

Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry and Clinician Feedback

The objectives of this study are to: develop an emergency care visit registry for pediatric patients for Quality Improvement purposes and to support future research; to use the emergency care visit registry to collect stakeholder-prioritized emergency care performance improvement measures for important pediatric medical and trauma conditions; and report emergency care performance improvement measures.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pediatric Emergency Care

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 2019461

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • The Children's Hospital of Colorado
  • District of Columbia
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010
      • Children's National Medical Center
  • Ohio
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
      • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
      • The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84158
      • Data Coordinating Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: No older than 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Study subjects are all patients (0-18 regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender and of diagnosis or chronic health condition) who are registered to the ED.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients (0-18) who registered in the ED

Exclusion Criteria:

• Greater than 18 years of age for ED patients

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
ED Patients; All patients (age 0-18 regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender and of diagnosis or chronic health condition) who are registered in the ED.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The Number of Visits Obtained From Electronic Health Record Data From the Sites	The number of visits obtained from electronic health record data from the sites	January 2012 - June 2016

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Collaborators: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Registry Network (PECARN)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Elizabeth R Alpern, MD, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 20, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): July 20, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 2, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2012
• First Posted (Estimate): August 6, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 21, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 26, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Emergencies
• Other Study ID Numbers: 12-009177; R01HS020270-01A1 (U.S. AHRQ Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: When the study is completed, the data coordinating center (DCC) will prepare a distributable database in compliance with Federal requirements.This database will be de-identified sufficiently that it will not be subject to Federal regulations nor the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No