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Patient and Physician Attitudes About Informed Consent for Emergency Department (ED) Computerized Axial Tomography (CT) Scans

NCT01174836 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 77

Last updated 2012-04-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hypothesis: The majority of Emergency physicians and patients do not feel that specific informed consent should be obtained for ED CT scans.

Secondary Hypothesis: Emergency attending physicians and residents will have similar attitudes about CT scan consent issues. Physician attitudes toward obtaining consent for CT scans will change after an educational program about the associated risks.

Conditions

  • Attitudes About CT Utilization

Interventions

OTHER

Educational session

Physicians will have a brief education session provided in powerpoint about the risks of CT

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lehigh Valley Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

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