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Reducing Length of Stay for Veterans Hospitalized With Pneumonia

NCT01068548 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 129

Last updated 2019-01-09

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Summary

This is a pilot study to implement a computer based intervention to safely reduce length of hospital stay and time to conversion to oral antibiotics for patients with pneumonia.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

reminder

computer based reminder to change patients from IV to oral antibiotics based on evidence based clinical practice guidelines

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Michael Mortensen, MD MSc BA · South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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