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Effective communication between consulting physicians and the emergency physicians is critical for patients in the emergency department. The aim of this study was to determinate effectiveness of whatsApp usage for communication between physicians.
Effective communication between consulting physicians and the emergency physicians is critical for patients in the emergency department. Many hospitals still use outdated pager systems as the foundation for clinical communication between physicians and other health care professionals. But, outdated pager systems contain some problems including long waiting-times for the return of a page, high costs, frequent interruptions, and the inability to identify the location or identity of the caller. This outdated communication technologies in healthcare can place patient safety at risk. Therefore they are no longer seen as an effective communication tool given the obvious advantages of Smart phones. WhatsApp Messenger, which is a messaging program for smart phones, is the most commonly used for communication in at present. As of September 2015, WhatsApp incorporated announced more than 900 million users. This is making it the most globally popular messaging application. WhatsApp Messenger have been started to be used for communication in healthcare. So, this study aims to trial the effect of whatsApp usage for communication between physicians.
Study Design and Setting: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled, single-center, clinical trial was conducted in ED of a tertiary care university hospital with an annual census of approximately 200,000 visits.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| whatsApp messages | Experimental | consultations in the experimental group will be generated with whatsApp. Patients' all radiographies, laboratory results, electrocardiographs, tomography images, wound images and/or extremity pictures will be sent to consultant physician via whatsApp. |
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| control group | Other | consultations in the control group will be generated without whatsApp. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Other | whatsApp application will be used for consultations. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| arrival duration to emergency department | Examine consulting Physicians' arrival duration to emergency department will be obtained from consultation hours in whatsApp program. | one month |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| examine causes of consulting Physicians' arriving late to emergency department from data obtained by questioning of an assistant blinded to the study | one month |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Umut Gulacti, M.D. | Adiyaman University of Medical Faculty | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Adiyaman University Research Hospital | Adıyaman | Central | 02000 | Turkey (Türkiye) |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 25454952 | Background | Johnston MJ, King D, Arora S, Behar N, Athanasiou T, Sevdalis N, Darzi A. Smartphones let surgeons know WhatsApp: an analysis of communication in emergency surgical teams. Am J Surg. 2015 Jan;209(1):45-51. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.08.030. Epub 2014 Oct 22. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D003142 | Communication |
| D004630 | Emergencies |
| ID | Term |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
| D020969 | Disease Attributes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| without whatsApp |
| Other |
whatsApp application will be not used for consultations. |
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