Clinical trials: Inappropriate Use
Inappropriate and Appropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms
Education and Feedback Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms
The utilization of transthoracic echocardiography in the United States has been increasing. This has resulted in increased costs to the healthcare system.
- Trial name
- NCT01968642
- Testing
- Educational Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Inappropriate Drug Prescription and Use
Educational and Informative Interventions to Tackle Inappropriate Use of Drugs in Italy
Pharmacological intervention is an essential step in health promotion. However, lots of drugs are often used in inappropriate ways, especially in elderly patients.
- Trial name
- EDUREDRUG (NCT04030468)
- Testing
- Educational intervention addressed to general practitioners, Informative intervention addressed to patients
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 4,840 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Milan
Intravenous Fluids, Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance
SOFI: A Quality Improvement Project to Standardize Use of Intravenous Fluids in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients
Intravenous fluids (IVF) are used in hospitalized patients to replenish the fluid and electrolyte losses of patients who cannot take adequate hydration by mouth or through their gut.
- Conditions
- Intravenous Fluids, Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance, ADH Inappropriate
- Trial name
- SOFI (NCT03924674)
- Testing
- Education, clinical decision support tools
- Where
- 89 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 106 people
- Sponsor
- Seattle Children's Hospital
Inappropriate Prescribing
Using a Mobile Application as a Support at the Prescription of Appropriate Medications for Elderly
Objective: To develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application to support decision making for prescription drugs to elderly patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02918643
- Testing
- Use of an application to for mobile devices like decision-making support for prescription drugs to elderly patients
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Bahia
Antidiuretic Hormone, Inappropriate Secretion
Samsca Post-marketing General Drug Use-results Survey in Patients With Hyponatremia in SIADH
The purpose of this study is to confirm the safety of tolvaptan in patients with hyponatremia in syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) in Japan
- Trial name
- NCT04790175
- Testing
- Tolvaptan (SAMSCA)
- Where
- Japan
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Primary Health Care
Impact of a Community-Based Primary Health Care Project on the Inappropriate Use of Emergency Medical System in Bergamo
The goal of this study is to reduce the inappropriate use of the Emergency Medical System in Bergamo. The main question it aims to answer is: can a Community-Based Primary Health Care Project impact on the use of the Emergency…
- Trial name
- PHC-BG_EMS (NCT06862882)
- Testing
- Community-Based Primary Health Care
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 10,000 people
- Sponsor
- Fondazione San Giuliano Onlus
Acute Respiratory Infections
C Reactive Protein (CRP) Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions in the Primary Healthcare Setting
Many studies have showed that rapid point-of-care (POC) c-reactive protein (CRP) test can reduce inappropriate use of antibiotic at primary health care level.
- Trial name
- CRP (NCT01918579)
- Testing
- Patients will be tested by rapid POC CRP test
- Where
- Vietnam
- Volunteers
- 2,037 people
- Sponsor
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam
Acute Respiratory Tract Infection
Evaluation of an Algorithm to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Bronchitis
Inappropriate use of antibiotics to treat patients with acute bronchitis is a significant factor contributing to the selection of antimicrobial drug resistant pathogens, which threaten the effectiveness of available therapies to…
- Trial name
- NCT00981994
- Testing
- Decision Support for ARI Management
- Volunteers
- 3,300 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Psychotropic Drugs, Psychiatric Drugs
Decreasing Harms and Improving Child Health
The investigators are doing this study because they know from research and talking with caregivers that kids can be on a bunch of medications, and it's hard to keep track of what the medications are for and whether or not they…
- Conditions
- Psychotropic Drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, Children, Shared Decision Making
- Trial name
- NCT07392489
- Testing
- AWARE Shared Decision Making Medication Review
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Glyn Jones-Elwyn
Inappropriate Use of Echocardiography
Educational Intervention to Reduce Outpatient Inappropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms
It is well documented that the proportion of inappropriate transthoracic echocardiograms (TTEs) is highest in the ambulatory environment, where it has been reported as high as 30%.
- Trial name
- NCT01944202
- Testing
- Educational intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 112 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Gastrointestinal Disease
Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Inappropriate Use and Economic Burden in Chinese Population
This is a descriptive retrospective database analysis study in using database. All patients with a physician PPI prescription will be selected to estimate the PPI inappropriate use.
- Trial name
- ECHO (NCT03118778)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 90,895 people
- Sponsor
- AstraZeneca
Plain Abdominal Radiography
Using a Computer-assisted Prescription to Decrease Inappropriate Use of Plain Abdominal Radiography in Emergency Department
The aim of this study is to assess whether a computer-assisted prescription allows a reduction of the overall number of inappropriate PAR in emergency departments.
- Trial name
- NCT04116294
- Testing
- Computer-assisted prescription
- Where
- 2 sites in Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Christophe Fehlmann