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Feasibility and Impact of a Decision Rule for Imaging of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Kidney Stone

NCT01869647 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2020-03-20

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Summary

This is the third phase (feasibility and impact) of a three-phase project designed to derive, validate and test the feasibility and impact of implementing clinical decision support to safely limit the use of Computerized Tomography (CT) and its accompanying radiation and cost in emergency department patients with suspected renal colic.

Hypothesis: Using a before and after model, integration of a clinical prediction rule into decisions about imaging in patients with suspected renal colic will result in a reduction of between 25-50% of radiation received from CT scanning in this population, without adverse affects on patient-centered outcomes.

Conditions

  • Kidney Stones

Interventions

RADIATION

Ultra low dose CT scan

Ultra low dose CT scan

RADIATION

Regular CT or Low Dose CT scan

Regular CT or Low Dose CT scan

RADIATION

No imaging

No imaging

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Yale University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher L Moore, MD · Yale University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2014-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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