Clinical trials: General Internal Medicine Patients
Quality Improvement in Patient Handoff
Quality Improvement in Handover of General Internal Medicine In-patients
Miscommunication during patient handover can jeopardize patient safety and is the focus of Quality Improvement initiatives by many organizations.
- Trial name
- NCT01796756
- Testing
- Handover program
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,168 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Multimorbidities
How Complexity and Multiple Illnesses Affect Hospitalized Patients' Health: A Multicenter Study
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the association between complexity and multiple illnesses of adult hospitalized internal medicine patient and mortality.
- Trial name
- SPIR (NCT06872632)
- Where
- 21 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 2,326 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Società Italiana di Medicina Interna
Cellulitis
A Study Assessing the Impact of Dermatology Consultation in Patients Presenting With Possible Cellulitis
This is a randomized, controlled study to compare patients evaluated by primary care physicians alone versus patients who are additionally evaluated by a dermatologist at the primary care physician"s office, aiming to demonstrate…
- Trial name
- NCT01795092
- Testing
- Dermatology Consultation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Communication, Patient Care
Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Hand-off Quality
The aim of this project is to develop and validate a simple, flexible, reliable, real-time observation tool to evaluate hand-off practices.
- Conditions
- Communication, Patient Care, Quality of Health Care
- Trial name
- NCT01059942
- Testing
- mock handoff exposure, Introduction of CEX tool in Actual Hand-offs
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Resident Communication Skills Rated by Patients
Measuring the Impact of an Interactive Communication Skills Curriculum on Internal Medicine Residents
This study seeks to assess whether a novel method of teaching communication skills is effective in improving the communication skills of internal medicine residents.
- Trial name
- IMCOMM (NCT05057780)
- Testing
- Communication Skills Curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 411 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic