Clinical trials: Medical Quality
Poor Quality Sleep, Fatigue
The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial With Air-medical Personnel
The overarching goal of this proposal is to address the MedEvac foundation priority of educational techniques and technologies and improve Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) safety by determining if overall sleep…
- Trial name
- SleepTrack2 (NCT02783027)
- Testing
- SleepTrackTXT2
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders
PACT for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness
People with serious mental illness have difficulty making good use of primary care, and die, on average, years earlier than others in the population.
- Trial name
- SMI-PACT (NCT01668355)
- Testing
- Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT)
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 331 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Schizophrenia, Chronic Illness
Implementing Effective, Collaborative Care for Schizophrenia (EQUIP-2)
This project evaluates the implementation and effectiveness of a care model to improve treatment for schizophrenia within the context of diverse VA practices and priorities.
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Chronic Illness, Weight Gain, Psychotic Disorder
- Trial name
- EQUIP-2 (NCT00137280)
- Testing
- Collaborative Chronic Illness Care Model
- Where
- 8 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,067 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Death, Pain
Intervention to Improve Care at Life's End
The BEACON trial (Best Practices for End-of-Life Care for Our Nations' Veterans) was a six-site implementation study to evaluate a multi-component, education-based intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided…
- Conditions
- Death, Pain, Dyspnea
- Trial name
- BEACON (NCT00234286)
- Testing
- Comfort care education intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 78 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Ionizing Radiation Exposure, Quality Improvement
CT DOSE Collaboratory
This is a pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial to explore variation in doses used for diagnostic CT by pooling radiation dose data across diverse healthcare delivery systems.
- Trial name
- NCT03000751
- Testing
- Simple Audit Report, Multi-Component Intervention, In-Person Meeting
- Volunteers
- 864,080 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Medical History Taking
Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care
During the project, fourth-year medical students participating in a Medicine sub-internship will be randomized to an intervention group or a control group; the intervention group will receive additional training in the…
- Conditions
- Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Medical History Taking, Diagnosis
- Trial name
- NCT01088438
- Testing
- Contextualization workshop
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 189 people
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
Venous Leg Ulcer, Mixed Leg Ulcer
Leg Ulcers Standards of Care Enhancement
Multi-center, prospective,randomized controlled study on the speed of healing, life quality and cost-effectiveness of the treatment with a blue light medical device (EmoLED) versus existing Standards Of Care (SOC) for patients…
- Trial name
- LUCE (NCT04689009)
- Testing
- EmoLED, current Standards Of Care
- Where
- 5 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 83 people
- Sponsor
- Emoled
Patient Experience, Medical Emergencies
Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes of Municipal Acute Wards Versus a General Hospital
Demographic changes in the industrialized world are expected to prompt a need for better organized and more efficient health care services.
- Conditions
- Patient Experience, Medical Emergencies, Mortality, Morbidity
- Trial name
- NCT03885206
- Testing
- Level of healthcare services
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 164 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ostfold University College
Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
CPR Quality Between Flexible Stretcher and Standard Stretcher in OHCA
This study aims to compare the quality of emergency medical services cardiopulmonary resuscitation between flexible stretcher and standard stretcher during ambulance transport to hospital among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest…
- Trial name
- ASIA-CPR (NCT02527694)
- Testing
- Flexible EMS stretcher cart, mechanical CPR
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 49 people
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Telemedicine Strategy With Home Treatment Save Resources
Progress in technology has made telemedicine-based solutions with video consultations available in the management and treatment of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart failure and lung insufficiency at home.
- Trial name
- NCT02214017
- Testing
- A videotelephone, TandBerg E20,, Behavioral motivation
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Kolding Sygehus
Information Dissemination, Interprofessional Relations
Value of Technology to Transfer Discharge Information
The transition from hospital to home is a high-risk period in a patient's illness. Poor communication between healthcare providers at hospital discharge is common and contributes to adverse events affecting patients after…
- Trial name
- NCT00101868
- Testing
- Discharge communication software, Usual care discharge process
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 631 people
- Sponsor
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol Use Disorder
Extended-release Naltrexone and Care Management for Alcohol Dependent Frequent Emergency Department Users
Our primary aim is to assess the feasibility of initiating treatment in the ED with extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX) plus care management (CM) vs.
- Trial name
- NCT02445339
- Testing
- XR-NTX+CM (Extended-Release Naltrexone plus Care Management)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Lung Cancer, Malnutrition
Medical Nutrition Therapy or Standard Care in Treating Patients With Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, or Stage III or Stage IV Prostate Cancer
This is a two-part study. Part I is an observational study. Part II is a randomized clinical trial to see how well medical nutrition therapy works compared with standard care in treating patients with lung cancer, pancreatic…
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Malnutrition, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT00769652
- Testing
- Medical nutrition therapy, Standard Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Depression
Effectiveness of Methylphenidate in Improving Cognition and Function in Older Adults With Depression
This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of methylphenidate in improving cognition and function in older adults with depression.
- Trial name
- NCT00602290
- Testing
- Citalopram, Methylphenidate (MPH)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 181 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Radiodermatitis, Quality of Life
Monocenter, Open Label Clinical Investigation on the Treatment of Radiation Induced Dermatitis With Xonrid®
To evaluate the performance of Xonrid® in the prevention and treatment of G2 radiation dermatitis in breast and head \& neck cancer patients.
- Trial name
- NCT03255980
- Testing
- Xonrid® gel, Standard of Care
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Helsinn Healthcare SA
Pediatric Emergency Care
PECARN Emergency Care Registry
The objectives of this study are to: develop an emergency care visit registry for pediatric patients for Quality Improvement purposes and to support future research; to use the emergency care visit registry to collect…
- Trial name
- NCT01657344
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,019,461 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections
Evaluation of a New Critical Pathway for Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSI)
This study will evaluate a new critical pathway (use of guideline-based patient identification criteria and for those who meet these criteria, use of dalbavancin) for the treatment of ABSSSI compared to usual care.
- Trial name
- NCT02961764
- Testing
- Usual Care, Dalbavancin
- Where
- 11 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 313 people
- Sponsor
- Allergan