Single Time Management Diseases in Pediatric Traumatology

Completed

• Conditions: Fractures, Bone
• Interventions: Other: minor trauma

• Registration Number: NCT03852095
• Lead Sponsor: Fondation Lenval

Brief Summary

A recent internal study evaluating the relevance of the visit to traumatology consultation in our establishment highlight that 49.3% of consultations were not relevant passages. The project consists of individualizing 5 to 6 pathologies and to create care sheets and patient sheets to be given to the care teams and patients when the pathology lends itself to it. The aim is to reduce the irrelevant passage rate during these consultations, which is the source of absence from iterative work for parents, collateral expenses (toll, parking), absence from school for the children, unjustified expenses and X-ray examination unnecessary most often.

Detailed Description

The Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology department proposes a reform of the care in Traumatology of the children in order to improve and homogenize the care for a better relevance of these.

A recent internal study (June 2018) evaluating the relevance of the visit to traumatology consultation in our establishment to highlight that 49.3% of consultations were not relevant passages (Benign diseases of sprained ankle type, muscular contusion or simple bone removals). Indeed, these specialist consultations are currently filled by pathologies of simple treatment that do not require medical follow-up (neither clinical nor radiological follow-up).

The project consists of individualizing 5 to 6 pathologies found in consultation recurrently which the scientific literature has established that their follow-up is not justified, and to create care sheets and patient sheets to be given to the care teams and patients when the pathology lends itself to it. These cards will include all the management of the pathology of the definition itself, including the treatment and expected outcomes.

The aim is to reduce the irrelevant passage rate during these consultations, which is the source of absence from iterative work for parents, collateral expenses (toll, parking), absence from school for the children, unjustified expenses and X-ray examination unnecessary most often.

The expected benefit is parental and child satisfaction, a time saving for the practitioner that he can reinvest in consultations for patients who are in fact a specialist opinion and a relative budget saving for the establishment.

The method of study of the decline of irrelevant consultations will be made by a systematic review of each reason for consultation over a period of 3 months after implementation of the cards and study of the percentage of irrelevant consultation over the same period. The objective pursued is a drop in attendance of at least 25% of consultations deemed irrelevant in Traumatology, associated with a satisfaction rate of parents greater than 90%.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-11-02
• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Study First Submitted: 2019-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-02-21
• Study First Posted: 2019-02-22
• Primary Completion: 2019-06-14
• Study Completion: 2019-06-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2019-07-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• 0-18 years
• Positive diagnosis of elbow haemarthrosis, radial salter 1 fracture, fibula fracture 1 fracture, radial butter ball fracture, simple ankle sprain, simple knee sprain, fracture of the middle third of the clavicle .........
• No other associated anomaly

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal of the family ..............................................
• No understanding of the instructions ...............................
• Unaffiliated patient social security ..................................
• No French speaking .............

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
minor trauma	minor trauma	Child from 1 to 18 years old suffering an isolated minor trauma presenting at the hospital emergency services.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of the number of patients routinely summoned to post-emergency trauma consultation	at 6 months	decrease in the number of patients coming back for an unjustified consultation for these 4 pathologies by comparing the period from 6 months preceding the start of the protocol to a period of 6 months after starting the protocol.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
compliance of care	at 60 days after inclusion	call by phone the patient to verify the good compliance of the care. The improvement of the care will be evaluated according to the number of patient treated for one of these pathologies having felt the need to consult another doctor / orthopedic surgeon that is envisaged by the protocol (in the days following emergency room consultation).
measurement of patient satisfaction	at 60 days after inclusion	Call by phone the patient to measure the satisfaction by a standard questionnaire. the scale is composed of 7 closed questions on the satisfaction of care in emergencies, the follow-up of the patient by a city doctor. the answers are yes or no.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Fondation Lenval Hopitaux Pediatriques de Nice Chu Lenval; 🇫🇷 Nice, France