Clinical Reminder to Improve Appropriateness of Echocardiography

June 11, 2021 updated by: Paul A. Heidenreich, Stanford University
This study will test a clinical reminder to show recent echocardiograms when a new echocardiogram is ordered. The goal is to avoid unnecessary comprehensive echocardiography.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

1365

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

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

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford, California, United States, 94305
        • Stanford Health Care

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Echo ordered

Exclusion Criteria:

  • None

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

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Triple

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Clinical Reminder
Other: Clinical Reminder
Clinical reminder in the electronic medical record
No Intervention: No Reminder

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Comprehensive echo ordered
Time Frame: 24 hours from when when the initial order was placed
Number of comprehensive echos completed
24 hours from when when the initial order was placed

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Cost of Echocardiography
Time Frame: 30 days
Cost of echocardiography during the hospital stay.
30 days

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Stanford University

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 (Actual)

September 30, 2019

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 30, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 19, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 11, 2021

First Posted (Actual)

June 14, 2021

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 14, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 11, 2021

Last Verified

June 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CSRPecho1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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