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Outcomes in the Palm of Your Hand: Improving the Quality and Continuity of Patient Care

NCT00314730 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2007-04-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates the usability of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by nurses for collecting, utilizing and communicating patient health information, and the feasibility of using PDAs to increase nurses' access to and utilization of best-practice guidelines.

Conditions

  • Computers, Handheld
  • Outcomes Assessment, Patient

Interventions

DEVICE

handheld Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Diane Doran, PhD, RN · Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Univ of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-05-31
Completion
2007-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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