Clinical trials: Benchmark
Postoperative Morbidity
Investigating Trends in Compliance With Quality Assurance Metrics
Over 40 million major operative procedures are performed in the US annually and comprise about 40% of healthcare expenditures. Despite decades of research, perioperative mortality and morbidity remain a major healthcare system…
- Trial name
- NCT03119532
- Testing
- Receive metric feedback email
- Volunteers
- 672 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Anesthesia
3D OLV Training Intervention for Pediatric Anesthesia Trainees
One lung ventilation (OLV) in neonates and children is an advanced skill that is necessary for delivery of safe and quality anesthetic care.
- Trial name
- NCT03929315
- Testing
- OLV technique on tracheo-bronchial model
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Clyde Matava
Motility Disorder of Intestine
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment of Small Bowel Motility
This project involves the development, validation and application of a novel test using MRI to assess gastrointestinal motility a vital process that mixes the contents of our digestive tract.
- Trial name
- NCT02754869
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 172 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Infant, Newborn, Infant, Low Birth Weight
Benchmarking Initiative to Reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
This study tested whether Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) teams trained in benchmarking -- comparing care practices between different NICUs to see which practices prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) -- and quality…
- Conditions
- Infant, Newborn, Infant, Low Birth Weight, Infant, Small for Gestational Age, Infant, Premature
- Trial name
- Benchmarking (NCT00067613)
- Testing
- Benchmarking Management Practices, Standard Management Practices
- Where
- 17 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 4,095 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NICHD Neonatal Research Network
Performance Assessment, Motion Metrics
Do Motion Metrics Lead to Improved Skill Acquisition on Simulators?
Emphasizing the growing popularity of motion metrics are the majority of available virtual reality simulators and some newer hybrid models that offer motion tracking for performance assessment.
- Trial name
- NCT01052168
- Testing
- skills training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Simulation Training
Metric-based Feedback Training for the Acquisition of Sonographic Skills
The investigators hypothesized that feedback based on previously developed and validated metrics will improve novices' learning of procedural skills.
- Trial name
- NCT02976623
- Testing
- metric-based feedback training
- Where
- Ireland
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College Cork
Glaucoma
Benchmarking Management of Glaucoma Using the Diopsys VEP/PERG Protocols.
Establish electrophysiological benchmarks, using the Diopsys Visual Evoked Potential/ Pattern ERG (VEP/PERG) protocols of populations with Glaucoma following: 1) Baseline VEP/ERG prior to treatment; and 2) VEP/PERG after…
- Trial name
- NCT02594280
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Diopsys, Inc.
Educational Problems
Deliberate Practice With Validated Metrics Improves Skills Acquisition
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of deliberate vs. self-guided practices on acquiring needling skills by novice learners.
- Trial name
- NCT03154372
- Testing
- Expert supervised practice with validated metrics, self guided practice with validated metrics
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College Cork
Wellness, Psychological
Physician-Nurse Dyad Rounding: A Collaborative Approach to Improve Unit-Level Metrics
The project will be implemented on one unit at a time until the co-rounding process has been implemented on each Medical-Surgical unit.
- Trial name
- NCT06336915
- Testing
- Physician-Nurse Dyad Rounding
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Methodist Health System
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs), Weight Loss
Effects of Multi-strain Bacillus Spore Probiotics on Growth, Digestive Function, and Gut Microbiota in Cesarean-Delivered Neonates
Infants born by cesarean section commonly show early weight loss and slower recovery of birth weight, together with characteristic patterns of gut microbiota dysbiosis marked by reduced Bifidobacterium and Bacteroides and…
- Trial name
- NCT07320287
- Testing
- RO water, LiveSpo PREG-MOM, LiveSpo CONSY
- Where
- Vietnam
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Anabio R&D
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cortical Metrics in Intervention Trials With Autism Spectrum Disorders
The investigators overarching aim is to obtain preliminary data to support a larger grant to validate a novel objective, physiologically-based outcome measure for clinical trials in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) called the…
- Trial name
- NCT02212275
- Testing
- Dextromethophan
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective Disorder
Validation and Comparative Multi-Omics Benchmarking of Fluid-Derived Volatilomics Biomarkers for the Prevention and Early Detection of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (SZ) is one of the most severe and costly mental disorders in terms of human suffering and societal expenditure. Currently, there are no biomarkers that facilitate the early diagnosis of SZ.
- Trial name
- MZvyagintsev (NCT07876089)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 3,692 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Aachen
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Effect of Simulation-based Procedure Training for Novice Cardiac Device Implanters Towards Implant Proficiency
This is an educational research study involving novice cardiac device implanters willing to further enhance their device implant skills through optional simulation-based training.
- Trial name
- IMPROF (NCT05952908)
- Testing
- Proficiency-Based Progression simulation training, Traditional simulation training
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jorio Mascheroni
Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
Reliability of Ultrasound Metrics Used in Hip Dysplasia Diagnostics - a Prospective Study
Several measurements are used to evaluate hip dysplasia in hip ultrasound of children. Despite having being used since the 1980s, reliability studies have failed to find acceptable reliaiblity values for the gold standard…
- Trial name
- NCT06233487
- Testing
- Repeat hip ultrasound measurements
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 74 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aarhus University Hospital
Focus: Otologic Surgery Training
Virtual Temporal Bone Surgery: Defining and Translating Metrics
The goal of this project is to improve the efficiency of training and assessment of technical skill in surgical treatment of otologic disease.
- Trial name
- NCT01493765
- Testing
- Simulator training with expert scoring
- Where
- 10 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 96 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
Fear Pain
Human Behaviors Related to the Expectation of Pain
The conditioned expectation of pain is an important aspect of pain-related disability produced by environments and stimuli associated with a painful injury on the job, although the neuroscience of this expectation is unclear.
- Trial name
- NCT03739645
- Testing
- Skin conductance levels and slopes over time in conditioned fear as metrics.as metrics for anxiety
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Burn
Multicenter Benchmarking of Functional and Psychosocial Outcomes of Pediatric Burn Survivors
The purpose of this study is to establish an expected recovery trajectory (recovery model) in terms of physical and psychological function of the pediatric burn patient.
- Trial name
- NCT00239668
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Brain Concussion, Reflex, Pupillary
Utility of Pupillary Metrics in Diagnosis and Management of Concussion in Children
The purpose of this study is to gather information and compare the potential use of pupillometry to identify concussions and post concussive syndrome with standard age appropriate assessments.
- Conditions
- Brain Concussion, Reflex, Pupillary, Post-Concussion Syndrome, Brain Injuries, Traumatic
- Trial name
- NCT04540445
- Testing
- Pupillary Assessment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Orange County