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Effect of an Automated Paging System on Response to Critical Laboratory Values

NCT00469924 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 271

Last updated 2016-05-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients in hospitals may develop serious problems that are detected by blood tests. It is very important for the physicians to be notified of these abnormal blood tests as soon as possible. Currently, this is done using phone calls from the lab to the nurse. The nurse then pages the doctor and waits for a call back. We are conducting a study using an automated paging system that immediately alerts the physician directly. We will test whether the automated system affects the time for the physician to respond to the abnormality. If the physician's patient has a serious laboratory result, we will automatically send this laboratory result to the physician's PDA. We will also provide guidelines for treating the patient. These guidelines will come from existing hospital policies where available, or from local expert opinion. We will determine whether patients get better and faster care because of the automated alerting system.

Conditions

  • Critical Laboratory Values
  • Drug Laboratory Interactions
  • Drug Drug Interactions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Real Time Clinical Alerting

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Edward E Etchells, MD MSc · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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