Automated Telephone Reminder Prior to Outpatient Colonoscopy and the Effect on Bowel Preparation Quality
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 234
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Ottawa preparation scale score
研究概览
简要总结
This is a quality improvement study to determine the impact of an automated telephone reminder on the quality of bowel preparation in patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy.
详细描述
Randomized trial of automated reminders with bowel prep instructions and encouraging clear fluid ingestion. The phone calls will occur 48-96 hours prior to the scheduled colonoscopy.
All patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy and prescribed sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate will be eligible for enrollment.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —(Adult, Older Adult)
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adult patients
- •Scheduled for outpatient colonoscopy at a later date
- •Prescribed evening-before or split-dose low volume preparation regimens
排除标准
- •Refusal to receive automated telephone reminder
- •No access to telephone
- •Urgent/emergent indication for colonoscopy
- •Prescribed a bowel prep other than Pico-Salax/Purgodan
- •Receiving upper and lower combined procedure
结局指标
主要结局
Ottawa preparation scale score
时间窗: Immediately after procedure
measures the cleanliness of each part of the colon and the overall fluid volume as assessed by the endoscopist
次要结局
- Number of glasses of fluid consumed pre-colonoscopy(24 hours)
研究者
Dr. Lawrence Hookey
MD, Division of Gastroenterology
Queen's University
