Outcomes in the Palm of Your Hand: Improving the Quality... | NCT00314730

Studies
Outcomes in the Palm of Your Hand: Improving the Quality and Continuity of Patient Care

NCT00314730

Sponsor

University of Toronto

Status

Unknown status

Last Update Posted

Apr 19, 2007Estimated

Enrollment

400

Phase

Not Applicable

Conditions

Computers, Handheld
Outcomes Assessment, Patient

Interventions

handheld Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

Countries

Canada

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Annotation Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Document Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Apr 2007

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Unknown status

Last Known Status

Active, not recruiting

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

May 2006

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Jun 2007Estimated

First Submitted Date

Apr 13, 2006

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Apr 13, 2006

First Posted Date

Apr 14, 2006Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

Not provided

Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Posted Date

Not provided

Last Update Submitted Date

Apr 18, 2007

Last Update Posted Date

Apr 19, 2007Estimated

Sponsor/Collaborators Module

Responsible Party, by Official Title

Not provided

Lead Sponsor

University of TorontoOTHER

Collaborators

Name	Class
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care	OTHER_GOV
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation	OTHER

Description Module

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the usability of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by nurses for collecting, utilizing and communicating patient health information, and the feasibility of using PDAs to increase nurses' access to and utilization of best-practice guidelines.

Detailed Description

Not provided

Design Module

Study Type

Interventional

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Not Applicable

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

400

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
handheld Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)	Device

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
nursing communication and coordination
patient functional status
patient symptoms (pain, nausea, dyspnea, fatigue)
patient therapeutic self care

Secondary Outcomes

Not provided

Other Outcomes

Not provided

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Nurses are eligible to participate if they work on a participating unit, 20 or more hours/week
Patients are eligible if they are being cared for on a participating unit, are able to provide informed consent in English, and are able to answer questions about their daily activities and symptoms (pain, nausea, dyspnea, fatigue.)

Exclusion Criteria:

none

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

18 Years

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Diane Doran, PhD, RN	Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Univ of Toronto	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Mount Sinai Hospital		Toronto	Ontario	M5G 1X5	Canada
University Health Network