Acceptability and effectiveness of using a secure electronic collaboration platform (myBeepr) to improve communication of test results between radiologists and emergency department doctors: controlled pre-post, mixed-methods, pragmatic trial
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- MisdiagnosisPublic Health - Health service researchEmergency medicine - Other emergency care
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12619000245190
- Lead Sponsor
- Monash University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 17
Inclusion Criteria
Participants will be included if they are the radiologist or ED clinician of a patient who has had a CT scan ordered from the Emergency Department at Monash Health Clayton hospital. All types of CTs will be included.
Exclusion Criteria
There are no exclusion criteria for the radiologists or ED clinicians.
For patient outcomes, all patients who receive a CT scan ordered by an ED doctor will be included. No exclusion criteria apply.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Percentage of messages sent by radiology technicians viewed by ED clinicians on myBeepr, as measured by app analytics..[All tests in the one month post-intervention commencement.];Time elapsed before radiology report is opened by ED clinician in hospital EMR (assessed using hospital electronic records).[The time count will begin when the radiology report is entered into the hospital EMR, and stop when a doctor opens the report.];Compliance rate with intervention, measured as the percentage of relevant tests (i.e abdomen CT scans ordered by ED doctors, as recorded in hospital EMR systems) the radiology technician sent a message to the ED clinician using myBeepr.[All tests in the one month post-intervention commencement.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method