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Radiation Safety Alert

NCT01268085 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15969

Last updated 2018-06-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In recent years, multiple articles have highlighted the increased risk of developing cancer from ionizing radiation. The risk increases with higher radiation doses, and accumulates with repeated scans.

Hospitals with computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) have the unique opportunity to use decision support on radiation safety to influence a physician's ordering practice in real-time. An ideal decision support tool for radiation safety will educate the physician about the dangers of cumulative ionizing radiation, present the patient's image history, and guide the provider to the best modality that meets the patient's diagnostic needs with as little radiation exposure as possible. The design challenge is to create a decision support tool that appropriately protects the investigators patients from overutilization of CAT scans, without inadvertently leading to underutilization of CAT scans or inappropriate utilization of alternative tests.

This research protocol proposes to study one such design at a large, academic medical center.

Conditions

  • Radiation Safety

Interventions

OTHER

Radiation Alert

A radiation safety pop-up alert with a message about the dangers of cumulative ionizing radiation, the patient's cumulative CAT scan history, and the most recent imaging test from any modality of the same body part

OTHER

Control

Control with no inverention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephen Amis, MD · Montefiore Medical Center

  • Jason S Adelman, MD, MS · Montefiore Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-31
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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