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The RightCall: Implementing a Sepsis Diagnostic Toolkit to Improve Pediatric Diagnosis in ED Transfer Calls

NCT07051668 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2025-08-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Sepsis is a leading cause of death in children, and an early diagnosis that improves outcomes is less likely in children who are treated in general Emergency Departments (EDs), that treat adults and children, compared to pediatric Emergency Departments. The study team, in collaboration with invested clinicians and expert partners, has developed a pediatric sepsis diagnostic safety toolkit that we will implement in a pediatric health system's transfer call center. Preparation for launch of the toolkit will include education throughout Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO), with a focus on transfer center nurses and accepting CHCO physicians who will be partnering in delivering the toolkit. Usual avenues for clinical education will be used, including meetings, endorsement from clinical leaders, emails, and physical materials such as badge and pocket cards. Referring Emergency Department (ED) providers outside of CHCO will not receive education about the toolkit by design, since they are the recipients of the toolkit which is designed to disseminate sepsis diagnostic knowledge in real time to general EDs within existing transfer workflows. This research will test whether the toolkit improves early pediatric sepsis diagnosis in general EDs where most children receive their first critical hours of care.

Conditions

  • Sepsis
  • Diagnosis
  • Emergencies

Interventions

OTHER

Pediatric Sepsis Diagnostic Toolkit

The toolkit consists of the following items: 1) a recommendation to request and report vital signs in all pediatric hospital/ED transfers, 2) dissemination of evidence based pediatric sepsis diagnostic criteria to accepting and referring providers and transfer nurses, and 3) accepting physician education in conversational strategies to promote improved diagnostic accuracy during pediatric transfer conversations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Halden F. Scott, MD, MSCS · University of Colorado School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Month
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-08
Primary Completion
2027-06-30
Completion
2027-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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