Clinical trials: Health Care Costs
Appendicitis
Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy? Let the Patient Decide
This protocol examines choice where it pertains to choosing between two standard methods for appendectomy, laparoscopic or open procedures, and the affect that "cost" of the appendectomy has upon choice.
- Trial name
- NCT01738750
- Testing
- Cost Information Included
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Referral and Consultation, Telemedicine
Electronic Referral and Booking of Outpatient Day Case Surgery Compared With Traditional Referral Routines.
We want in this study to investigate the cost-effectiveness and waiting time of direct electronic referral and booking of outpatient surgery compared to the traditional patient pathway where the patient is seen at the outpatient…
- Conditions
- Referral and Consultation, Telemedicine, Surgery, Outpatient, Surgery, Day
- Trial name
- one-stop (NCT00692497)
- Testing
- one stop (Electronic standardised referrals and appointment bookings)
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital of North Norway
Mental Health
Duration and Direct Cost of Behavioral Health Concerns in Pediatric Primary Care
The purpose of this study is to compare the duration and direct cost of pediatric primary care visits consisting of medical concerns only, behavioral concerns only, and medical and behavioral concerns.
- Trial name
- EI (NCT00922922)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 228 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nebraska
Quality of Health Care, Health Care Costs
Evaluating the Impact on Quality and Costs of Regional Clinical Data Exchange Programs in New York State
The purpose of this study is to measure the financial effects of health information technology and health information exchange in regional health information organizations in New York State.
- Trial name
- NCT00571376
- Testing
- Health information technology and exchange
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 218,766 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Chronic Respiratory Failure
Telemedicine for Patients With Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency
In unstable patients needing oxygen and/or home mechanical ventilation, a nurse-centred TM programme (supported by continuous availability of a call centre and a pulsed oxygen system) is cost/effective saving health care…
- Trial name
- NCT00563745
- Testing
- telemedicine program
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 240 people
- Sponsor
- Michele Vitacca
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Healthcare Cost and Resource Utilization Related to Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment With Intravenous and Oral Agents
A retrospective study to evaluate healthcare cost and resource utilization for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who have been treated with IV or oral agents
- Trial name
- NCT02928263
- Testing
- Non-Interventional
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
Pneumonia, Primary Health Care
Tools for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI): Evaluation of Pulse Oximetry & Clinical Decision Support Algorithms in Primary Care
By introducing pulse oximetry, with or without clinical decision support algorithms, to primary care facilities in India, Kenya, Senegal and Tanzania, the Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) project aims…
- Conditions
- Pneumonia, Primary Health Care, Child Health, Hypoxia
- Trial name
- TIMCI (NCT04910750)
- Testing
- Pulse oximetry, Clinical Decision Support Algorithm
- Where
- 27 sites in Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 167,517 people
- Sponsor
- Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
Maternal Health
Intervention on Maternal Health Care in Rural China
This project aims to strengthen and improve the performance of health care system in rural China in order to improve maternal and child health.
- Trial name
- CHIMACA (NCT01006317)
- Testing
- clinical skills training, health education, financial
- Where
- 3 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 108 people
- Sponsor
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Implementation, Costs, and Effectiveness
Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV…
- Trial name
- PRACTICE (NCT05343390)
- Testing
- Enhanced implementation package, Standard implementation package
- Where
- 33 sites in Malawi
- Volunteers
- 841 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hearing Loss
The Hearing Aid Effectiveness After Aural Rehabilitation (HEAR) Trial
This study compares the effectiveness of hearing aid appointments provided in a group format to those provided in an individual format.
- Trial name
- NCT00260663
- Testing
- Group hearing aid fittings, Group hearing aid follow-up
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 660 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Effect of Integrating Traditional Tuberculosis Care With Modern Health Care on Case Detection
Although many interventions are implemented to increase TB case detection, decrease diagnosis delay, and avoid catastrophic costs, there are no significant changes and the end TB goal will not be achieved in 2035.
- Conditions
- Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, Tuberculosis Infection
- Trial name
- NCT05236452
- Testing
- Training for traditional and modern care providers
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 918 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bahir Dar University
Clinical Trial
AFRI Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area
This study is a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation trial of the Family Check-Up 4 Health (FCU4Health), an adapted version of the Family Check-Up, in pediatric primary care.
- Trial name
- NCT04469816
- Testing
- Family Check-Up 4 Health, Services as Usual
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 217 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Diabetes
A Study of the Effect of a Chronic Disease Management System on Diabetes Care Within Multidisciplinary Primary Care Practices in Ontario
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of using a web-based (P-PROMPT) chronic disease management system (CDMS) by primary care practitioners and their team members and on their care for patients with diabetes.
- Trial name
- NCT00914706
- Testing
- P-PROMPT
- Where
- 6 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 39 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Severe Malaria, Severe Anaemia
Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention Implementation Trial in Benin
The proposed research aims to conduct implementation trials in Benin, co-designed with national stakeholders, to evaluate different delivery strategies for optimizing health system delivery of post-discharge malaria…
- Trial name
- PDMC-SL (NCT06601712)
- Testing
- Adherence support strategy A, Adherence support strategy B, Control
- Where
- 2 sites in Benin
- Volunteers
- 648 people
- Sponsor
- Institut de Recherche Clinique du Benin
Health Care Economics, Child Health
Laos Out-Of-Pocket Costs: an Observational Study on the Impact of Severe Childhood Illness on the Health, Wealth and Wellbeing of Household Members in Laos
This will be a prospective longitudinal study of children attending hospital for treatment of a severe illness with community follow-up in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
- Conditions
- Health Care Economics, Child Health, Cost of Illness, Burden of Illness
- Trial name
- LOOP (NCT05239104)
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- Laos
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Chronic Disease
Intensive Management of At-risk Patients
The purpose of this study is to assess if intensive management of at-risk participants, utilizing longitudinal patient tracking, proactive outreach, multidisciplinary action planning and careful outcomes monitoring, will lead to…
- Trial name
- NCT04456725
- Testing
- Intensive management, Control
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- CareMore Health, San Bernardino
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease
Telehealth Education Program for Caregivers of Veterans With Dementia
This study was designed to evaluate the impact of a Telehealth Education Program (TEP) on outpatient veterans with moderate to severe dementia and their spouse caregivers.
- Trial name
- NCT00105638
- Testing
- educational program, by telephone
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Preterm Birth, Prematurity
Parent-child Interactions, Child Developmental Health, and Health System Costs at 6 Months Corrected Age
The aim of this novel health services research proposal is to assess the longer-term outcomes, to 6 months corrected age, of an adapted Family Integrated Care (FICare) model of care for moderate and late preterm infants admitted…
- Conditions
- Preterm Birth, Prematurity, Infant,Premature, Infant Development
- Trial name
- NCT03357458
- Testing
- Family Integrated Care
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 56 people
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Perinatal Depression
Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of an Online Self-help Intervention and a Face-to-face Intervention Versus Usual Care in Mothers at Moderate Risk for Perinatal Depression
The perinatal period (pregnancy and the first postnatal year) (O'Hara \& Wisner, 2014) involves important changes and considerable challenges for parents (Milgrom \& Gemmill, 2015).
- Trial name
- MaMHI (NCT07027761)
- Testing
- Online self-help, Maternal Mental Health Intervention (MaMHI), Usual Care
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 210 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Asthma
CDC Medicaid Asthma Home Visit Project
Asthmatic children age 3-17 from low income households in King County are randomly assigned into a community health worker (CHW) intervention group and a control group.
- Trial name
- NCT02258308
- Testing
- CHW intervention
- Volunteers
- 373 people
- Sponsor
- Public Health - Seattle and King County