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The PAINFREE Initiative, a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

NCT03082417 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1375

Last updated 2019-03-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The PAINFREE (Improving PAIN control following FRactures; towards an Elder-friendly Emergency department) Initiative is a patient-centered multifaceted intervention which aims to improve pain management in patients 75 years and older presenting with a fracture at 7 Emergency Department of participating Montreal hospitals:

1. Montreal General Hospital
2. Royal Victoria Hospital
3. Ste Mary's Hospital
4. Hôpital de Verdun
5. Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal
6. Jewish General Hospital
7. Lakeshore General Hospital

Conditions

  • Elderly
  • Older Adults
  • Bone Fracture
  • Emergency Department
  • Pain, Acute

Interventions

OTHER

Implementation

The PAINFREE Initiative is a Multifaceted intervention: 1. Educating and providing point-of-care tools to nurses working at Emergency Department to improve pain management in older adults with fractures 2. Educating and providing point of care tools to Emergency Departments physicians working at Emergency Department to improve pain management in older adults with fractures 3. Inform the patients and their family about how to better manage the pain after a fracture

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suzanne Morin, Dr · McGill University Hospital Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-01
Primary Completion
2018-02-01
Completion
2018-10-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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