Clinical trials: Low-value Pre-operative Investigations
Low-value Pre-operative Investigations
Does a Theory-Based Intervention to Improve Accountability Reduce Low-Value Preoperative Investigations in Patients Undergoing Ambulatory Surgery
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) suggests that up to 30% of healthcare is considered low-value, defined as 'a test or treatment for which there is no evidence of benefit to the patient or where there is evidence of more harm than…
- Trial name
- NCT03610152
- Testing
- Hospital Policy change
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- University Health Network, Toronto
Cataract
Pre-Operative Testing for Cataract Surgery Among Adults in LA County
A multi-disciplinary intervention will reduce inappropriate preoperative testing for cataract surgery. Despite multiple rigorous randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses showing that pre-operative testing for cataract…
- Trial name
- CW-CATARACT (NCT03253874)
- Testing
- No Pre-Op Testing for Cataract Surgeries
- Volunteers
- 1,798 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Surgery, Anesthesiology
Reducing Low-Value Preoperative Investigations in Patients Undergoing Low Risk Surgery
The purpose of this study is to evaluate if a multi-component behavioral intervention given to anesthesiologists and surgeons is associated with decreasing low value preoperative testing orders in patients undergoing low risk…
- Trial name
- Pre-Op (NCT05526495)
- Testing
- Reducing preoperative low-value test ordering
- Where
- 4 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute