Clinical trials: Medical Errors
Quality of Life
Improving Quality of Life in Nursing Home Residents: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of Efficacy
Improving quality of life (QoL) in residents of nursing homes: A cluster randomized clinical trial of efficacy - The KOSMOS study.
- Trial name
- KOSMOS (NCT02238652)
- Testing
- Communication, Systematic Pain Assessment and Treatment, Medication Review
- Where
- 32 sites in Norway
- Volunteers
- 560 people
- Sponsor
- University of Bergen
Phenylketonurias, PKU
Evaluation of PKU Sphere in Italy
20 participants with PKU will build-up their dietary intake of PKU sphere over 2-16 weeks, depending on their level of metabolic control whilst doing so.
- Trial name
- NCT04679467
- Testing
- PKU sphere
- Where
- 4 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 13 people
- Sponsor
- Vitaflo International, Ltd
Medication Errors
Evaluation of an Outpatient Modified Prescription Form
The purpose of this study is to determine if a modified paper prescribing form decreases prescribing errors compared to a traditional or standard paper prescribing form.
- Trial name
- NCT00256594
- Testing
- prescription form
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Vermont
Healthy Volunteers
Detection of Usability Errors of a Medical Device Zeneo®
The research addresses the question of the number of participants needed to identify as many usability-induced errors as possible in the context of summative usability tests.
- Trial name
- NCT03808246
- Testing
- using the demo version of a self-injector pen
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Myopia
The Incidence and Progression of Myopia: Cohort Study
A cohort study on incidence and progression of myopia in a group of medical students
- Trial name
- NCT03244670
- Testing
- Observation study only, no specific intervention
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sun Yat-sen University
Serious Medical Errors, Resident Sign-out
IIPE-PRIS Accelerating Safe Signouts
Because communication and handoff failures are a root cause of two-thirds of "sentinel events"- serious, often fatal preventable adverse events in hospitals improving handoffs has been identified by AHRQ and the Joint Commission…
- Trial name
- I-PASS (NCT02403466)
- Testing
- Resident Handoff Bundle
- Where
- 10 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 875 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Amyloidosis Transthyretin
Quantitative Analysis of Myocardial Uptake of Bone Radiopharmaceuticals in Patients With Cardiac ATTR Amyloidosis
Introduction: Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR) is an important cause of heart failure. Cardiac planar radionuclide imaging using 99mTc-labeled bone seeking radiopharmaceuticals is used as a noninvasive diagnostic…
- Trial name
- REMOD-TTR (NCT04535349)
- Testing
- Whole-body & CZT bone tracer imaging (SPECT)
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen
Wrong Patient Computerized Physician Order Entry Errors
Investigating Wrong-Patient Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Errors
With the increased adoption of CPOE systems, it is important to recognize that design flaws have resulted in the creation of new types of iatrogenic medical errors.
- Trial name
- NCT01262053
- Testing
- Passive Intervention, Active Intervention, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4,028 people
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center
Acute Coronary Syndromes, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Smartphone AI Assistance for Prehospital ECG Interpretation
Prehospital providers interpret 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) under time pressure and without immediate expert support. Missed acute coronary occlusion - occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) - delays reperfusion, while false…
- Conditions
- Acute Coronary Syndromes, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Non-ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction, Myocardial Infarction (MI)
- Trial name
- ECG-IA (NCT07810686)
- Testing
- Smartphone large language model assistance (GPT-4o, version-locked)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- École Supérieure de Soins Ambulanciers - College of Higher Education in Prehospital Care
Physician Fatigue
Impact of a Day Without Clinical Activity Before Night Shift on Non-technical Skills of Intensive Care Residents
In this proposal, investigators seek to address conclusively two knowledge gaps: 1) the lack of data on the impact of a schedule including a day off clinic before night shift on performances of residents in anesthesia or critical…
- Trial name
- REPOPREGARD (NCT05146856)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand