Clinical trials: Quality Improvement
Mental Health, Psychotic Disorders
Monitoring and Management for Metabolic Side Effects of Antipsychotics
The purpose of this study is to test an approach for implementing guideline recommendations for assessing and managing metabolic side effects (including weight gain, diabetes, elevated lipids) in patients prescribed antipsychotic…
- Trial name
- AMMP (NCT01875861)
- Testing
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Plus Facilitation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Aging
Reducing Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescribing for Older Patients in the ED
This research is being conducted to learn which implementation strategy of EQUIPPED is most effective to improve prescribing practices of ED providers toward older Veterans and determine the factors influencing implementation of…
- Trial name
- EQUIPPED (NCT04004936)
- Testing
- EQUIPPED with Active Feedback, EQUIPPED with Passive Feedback
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 74 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Mental Health Disorders
Hybrid Collaborative Care Randomized Program Evaluation
This randomized program evaluation is undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Health Operations (OMHO) and the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative.
- Trial name
- BHIP-CCM (NCT02543840)
- Testing
- Replicating Effective Programs plus External Facilitation, Educational Materials
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,112 people
- Sponsor
- VA Boston Healthcare System
Polypharmacy
The Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRe) Profile for Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy, the use of multiple or inappropriate medications, has the potential to harm older adults by causing cognitive impairment, falls, and hospitalisations.
- Trial name
- ADRe-p (NCT03955133)
- Testing
- Adverse Drug Reaction ADRe Profile for Polypharmacy
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- Swansea University
Aging
Assessment Skin Quality and Efficacy of Dermal Line After Four Bipolar Radiofrequency Microneedling Treatments
This study intends to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the InMode Morpheus8 System to treat facial and neck skin and assess its effect on skin quality and dermal lines.
- Trial name
- NCT05085730
- Testing
- InMode Morpheus8 System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Orthopedic Surgery, Opioid Use
Post-op Crowd Sourcing Health Data Via Text-messaging
The Center for Disease Control has labeled the opioid prescription drug crisis an "epidemic" in the United States and recently this epidemic has been named a public health emergency.
- Conditions
- Orthopedic Surgery, Opioid Use, Acute Injuries Knee, Neurosurgery
- Trial name
- NCT03532256
- Testing
- Observation, Text to online survey, Bi-directional text script
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 127 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Dementia, Memory Disorders
Identifying Patients With Dementia in Primary Care
Veterans who completed GEMS-Phase 1 will be asked to participate in GEMS-Phase 2 to determine the accuracy of methods used to assess mild memory problems.
- Trial name
- GEMS (NCT00289471)
- Testing
- No intervention delivered.
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 630 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Keratoconus
Custom Anterior Surfacing of Scleral Lens for Vision Quality Improvement in Patients With Keratoconus
The goal of the study is to examine the effects of custom front-surface wavefront correction on visual performance, and on neutralization of higher order aberrations, in patients wearing a scleral lens device.
- Trial name
- NCT03647046
- Testing
- Customized Scleral Lens
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- University of Rochester
Coordination, Administrative
Coordination Toolkit and Coaching Project
The Coordination Toolkit and Coaching (CTAC) project aims to disseminate strategies for coordination of care for high-risk Veterans via an online toolkit, while evaluating the benefits of adding a distance-coaching strategy to…
- Trial name
- CTAC (NCT03063294)
- Testing
- Online Toolkit, Distance-based coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Duration of Hospitalization
Volatile Anesthetic Choice and Duration of Hospitalization: A Quality Improvement and Cost-control Project
Preliminary retrospective data suggest that the relatively soluble but inexpensive volatile anesthesia isoflurane prolongs the duration of hospitalization compared to the less soluble but more expensive anesthetic sevoflurane.
- Trial name
- NCT01379664
- Testing
- Isoflurane, Sevoflurane
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,584 people
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
Infusion Site Injury
Study to Estimate the Point Prevalence of Peripheral Intravenous Catheter-related Complications in Brazil
A multi-center, national prevalence study where: (1) baseline SPIVC therapy complications of hospitalized adult patients that meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria of the study and (2) the compliance of clinicians to the…
- Trial name
- PIVS (NCT03719287)
- Where
- 3 sites in Brazil
- Volunteers
- 295 people
- Sponsor
- Solventum US LLC
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs)
Nudging Guideline-concordant Antibiotic Prescribing Using Public Commitments
Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) persists despite decades of intervention efforts. Negative outcomes of inappropriate antibiotics include increased costs of care, adverse drug…
- Trial name
- NCT01767064
- Testing
- Posted commitment letter
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Image Quality
TEE Image Quality Improvement With Our Devised Probe Cover
With using suction tube attached TEE probe cover, we will assess its pinpoint suction capacity on image quality and surgical decision making.
- Trial name
- NCT03812185
- Testing
- Suctioning orogastric tube which is attached to TEE probe cover
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- Henry Ford Health System
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
Human Papillomavirus Vaccines
Increasing Optimal Use of HPV Vaccination in Primary Care
Washington University will evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component implementation strategy to increase use of HPV vaccine in primary care practices.
- Trial name
- NCT04180462
- Testing
- Practice Facilitation, Education, Audit and Feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Rib Fracture, Rib Fracture Multiple
Orthosis of Acute Traumatic Rib Fractures Via RibFx Belt for Pain Alleviation and Improved Pulmonary Function
Acute traumatic rib fractures are a common issue for patients of trauma surgeons. They inflict substantial morbidity, the most dreaded and consequential of which are pulmonary complications.
- Conditions
- Rib Fracture, Rib Fracture Multiple, Trauma, Trauma Chest
- Trial name
- RibFx (NCT03846024)
- Testing
- RibFx Orthosis Belt
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Vermont Medical Center
HPV Vaccination
Evaluation of the Implementation and Effectiveness of IPP-HPV
The purpose of the proposed pilot study is to assess the implementation of IPP-HPV immunization at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and to identify potential barriers to and facilitators of this intervention to optimize its…
- Trial name
- NCT02994290
- Testing
- HPV vaccine, Inpatient Postpartum HPV Immunization Quality Improvement Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 817 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Venous Thromboembolism
Toronto Thromboprophylaxis Patient Safety Initiative
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE, is one of the common and preventable complications of hospital stay.
- Trial name
- TOPPS (NCT01869075)
- Testing
- Knowledge Translation (KT) toolkit
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,895 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Impotence
Tadalafil Taken Daily Compared to Placebo on Improvement of Getting and Maintaining an Erection and Sexual Quality of Life
To determine if tadalafil 5 mg daily compared to placebo when given for 12 weeks improves getting and maintaining an erection in men with erectile dysfunction and if there are improvements in the sexual quality of life of the man…
- Trial name
- NCT00422734
- Testing
- tadalafil
- Where
- 19 sites in United States, Austria and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 342 people
- Sponsor
- Eli Lilly and Company
Transient Ischemic Attack, Stroke
Protocol-guided Rapid Evaluation of Veterans Experiencing New Transient Neurological Symptoms
This program will seek to implement a quality improvement program to improve the care of Veterans with TIA or minor stroke at 6 Veteran Health Administration Hospitals.
- Trial name
- PREVENT (NCT02769338)
- Testing
- Quality Improvement Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,292 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development