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Referral Guidelines for Imaging Exams: Impact on Exam Relevance and Associated Delays

NCT01785368 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8549

Last updated 2025-11-17

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Summary

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the implementation of referral guidelines for imaging exams requested by the emergency department on exam relevance. The latter is assessed via the rate of suspected diagnoses that are confirmed by the requested exam.

Conditions

  • Emergency Department Admission
  • Imaging Techniques

Interventions

OTHER

Implementation of guidelines

The participating ER doctors are required to request imaging exams for their patients according to a guide mutually constructed by the emergency and imaging departments of the Nîmes university hospital.

OTHER

Baseline observation

During this period of the study, baseline data will be collected.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patrick Richard, MD · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-02
Completion
2014-06-02

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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