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Hand-carried Ultrasound Echocardiography in the Hospital

NCT01231100 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 453

Last updated 2023-06-15

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or not care guided by hospitalists equipped with hand-carried ultrasound echocardiography reduces the length of stay of general medicine inpatients who were referred for standard echocardiography.

Conditions

  • Adult Inpatients Referred for Standard Echocardiography

Interventions

OTHER

HCUE-guided care

Care directed by hand-carried ultrasound echocardiography

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cook County Health

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Brian P Lucas, MD MS FHM · Stroger Hospital of Cook County

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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