Randomize Everyone: Creating Valid Instrumental Variables for Learning Health Care Systems
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 37
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Compliance Rate With Assigned Treatment
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Randomize Everyone is a research project to develop new informatics systems and statistical methods for supporting randomization processes in EHR systems to do comparative effectiveness research. Two demonstration projects are being conducted in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, designed to evaluate different weight loss interventions and common practices in the treatment of chronic low back pain.
Detailed Description
EHR Embedded Comparative Effectiveness Studies-CPS will be held in the Center for Pain and Spine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. This study consists of randomizing enrollees to either activity restriction or no activity restriction following lumbar discectomy.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults (>18) able to consent
- •Sufficient fluency in English
- •Indications for discectomy
- •Able to restrict activities or to resume activities as tolerated
Exclusion Criteria
- •Pregnant women
- •Prisoners
- •Children (<18).
Arms & Interventions
Activity Restriction
Discharge orders for activity restriction
Intervention: Activity Restriction (Behavioral)
Activity As Tolerated
Discharge orders written for activity as tolerated
Intervention: Activity as Tolerated (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Compliance Rate With Assigned Treatment
Time Frame: Upon completion of surgery approximately 24 days post-randomization
Compliance with assigned treatment as measured by presence of appropriate surgical discharge instructions.
Percentage Eligible Patients Participating in Study
Time Frame: 1 day, during the recruitment period from October 23 2020 to August 7, 2021
Percentage of those identified as being eligible who were enrolled.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Tor D. Tosteson
Professor
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
