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The CLOQS Trial - Countdown Lights to Optimize Quality in Stroke

NCT01148602 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3452

Last updated 2015-12-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To reduce door-to-needle times in acute stroke treatment. Using an organizational behaviour intervention (a large stopwatch), we will post a visual cue to remind all parties that "time is brain". We hypothesize that this simple visual cue will improve door-to-CT scan times and door-to-needle treatment times, and thus improve treatment response, and reduce adverse events.

Conditions

  • Acute Stroke

Interventions

OTHER

LED stopwatch-clock timers

We will attach a large, "in-your-face" red LED stopwatch-clock timers to the patient's stretcher at the moment of ED arrival to act as a constant visual reminder to all team members (physicians, RN's, CT technologists) of the urgency of the situation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Unity Health Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard Swartz, MD · University of Toronto Stroke Program

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-06-30
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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