Clinical trials: Quality Assurance
Prostate Cancer
US-CT Fusion for Post Implant Dosimetry
Post implant dosimetry is an essential part of quality assurance after permanent seed prostate brachytherapy. CT imaging is the standard of assessment but due to contouring uncertainties, MR-CT fusion is preferred.
- Trial name
- NCT03692104
- Testing
- transrectal ultrasound
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- British Columbia Cancer Agency
Health Services Misuse, Physician's Practice Patterns
Primary Care Clinician Commitments to Choosing Wisely®
This pragmatic trial examines the uptake and effects of primary care clinician commitments to follow 3 Choosing Wisely® recommendations.
- Conditions
- Health Services Misuse, Physician's Practice Patterns, Guideline Adherence, Unnecessary Procedures
- Trial name
- NCT02247050
- Testing
- Commitment invitation
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Overdose, Adverse Event
Consequences of Doing What Should Not be Done in Primary Care
Retrospective observational study in a random selection of 5% of digital records active between 2014 and 2017 to quantify the frequency of Do not do primary care recommendations, calculating the over-cost related to them and…
- Trial name
- SOBRINA (NCT03482232)
- Testing
- Benzodiazepines, Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, paracetamol
- Where
- 2 sites in Spain
- Volunteers
- 750,000 people
- Sponsor
- Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Pain
Validation of a New Questionnaire Regarding Pain Management
The study includes operative as well as conservative patients using a questionnaire containing items of pain quality. After having completed the questionnaire, the patient is interviewed by an assistant.
- Trial name
- NCT02266199
- Where
- 3 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- Ruhr University of Bochum
Surgery
Visual Analogue Scale - a Quality Assurance Study
It has come to our attention that there is not a general consensus of how to apply Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) as a tool in measuring pain amongst postoperative patients in Denmark.
- Trial name
- NCT02243410
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 62 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Herlev Hospital
Indications for Flexible Bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy Registry
This monocentric, non-interventional observational registry study was designed in order to obtain data of patients with the indication for a flexible bronchoscopy to control and optimize a guideline conform therapy of these…
- Trial name
- BSK (NCT02741089)
- Testing
- Indication for a flexible bronchoscopy
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University
Screening Test, Endoscopy
The Alberta Primary Care Endoscopy (APC-Endo) Study
It is hypothesized that primary care colonoscopists are able to achieve benchmarks in colonoscopy quality including cecal intubation and adenoma detection rates and serious adverse event rates.
- Conditions
- Screening Test, Endoscopy, Colon Disease
- Trial name
- APC-Endo (NCT01320826)
- Testing
- colonoscopy
- Where
- 13 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 577 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Colon Polyps
Factors Associated With Short Withdrawal Time and Polyp Detection Rate During Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy withdrawal times are a critical element in determining quality of colonoscopy; however, few studies have evaluated specific factors that may influence the duration of withdrawal, and specifically short withdrawal…
- Trial name
- NCT01487356
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 802 people
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Increased Drug Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals From Meta, Colombia
Introduction: Healthcare-associated infections cause a burden in morbidity and mortality, and they increase the financial cost of care.
- Trial name
- NCT06044272
- Testing
- Factors associated
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 10,000 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital Departamental de Villavicencio
Problems With Access to Health Care
Quality Assurance of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department
This work aimed to prepare the obstetrics and gynecology department for high education and health care accreditation.
- Trial name
- NCT02101502
- Testing
- Questioner
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 2,300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Al-Azhar University
Respiratory Infections
Improving Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Treatment
Purpose The emergence and rapid rise in antibiotic resistance among common bacteria are adversely affecting the clinical course and health care costs of community-acquired infections.
- Trial name
- IMPAACT (NCT00144040)
- Testing
- Physician & patient education on appropriate antibiotic use, Rapid C-reactive protein testing to guide antibiotic treatment
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Heart Failure
Improving Goal Directed Medical Therapy for Device Clinic Patients With Reduced EF at UOHI: a QI Initiative (VIGILANT)
This is a quality improvement initiative with the goal of optimizing heart failure (HF) patients seen through the outpatient cardiac implantable electronic device clinic at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI).
- Trial name
- VIGILANT (NCT05085249)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 2,479 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation
Critically Ill, Intensive Care Unit
PERFormance Enhancement of the Canadian Nutrition Guidelines by a Tailored Implementation Strategy: The PERFECTIS Study
Canadian Critical Care Nutrition Guidelines assist health practitioners in identifying best practices for feeding critically ill patients.
- Trial name
- PERFECTIS (NCT01168128)
- Testing
- Tailored Change Strategy
- Where
- 5 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 278 people
- Sponsor
- Daren K. Heyland
Hypertension
Guidelines for Drug Therapy of Hypertension: Multi-Site Implementation
Clinical trial of implementation of clinical practice guidelines for managing hypertension in primary care clinics.
- Trial name
- NCT00122161
- Testing
- ATHENA Decision Support System, An Automated Clinical Decision Support System for Health Care Providers, Profiling performance
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 190 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Lead Poisoning, Obesity
QI Study of a Practice Facilitator's Impact in Working With Clinics on Improving Dental, Lead & Obesity Measures for Children
Funded by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services - Medicaid Technical Assistance and Policy Program (MEDTAPP), the "Child Health Excellence Center - a University-Practice-Public Partnership" (CHEC-UPPP) focuses on…
- Conditions
- Lead Poisoning, Obesity, Dental Decay
- Trial name
- NCT01739166
- Testing
- Practice-tailored intervention to increase rates of targeted services
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cataract
Quality Assurance Via Telephone Interviews After Cataract Surgery
To analyse quality assurance after cataract surgery by assessing discomfort and other symptoms via telephone interviews either in the evening of the day of the surgery or 1 day after surgery versus no additional call after…
- Trial name
- NCT05215002
- Testing
- Telephone Call, No telephone call
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Vienna Institute for Research in Ocular Surgery
Prostate Cancer
C-arm Cone-beam CT in Prostate Brachytherapy
The investigators will assess the feasibility of intraoperative use of C-arm cone-beam CT imaging for intraoperative dosimetric evaluation in prostate low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy.
- Trial name
- C-arm (NCT02322931)
- Testing
- Intra-operative C-arm CT imaging
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- British Columbia Cancer Agency
Pregnancy Complications, Cesarean Section Complications
An Evaluation of the Team Birth Project
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a pilot project to improve communication and teamwork and to increase vaginal delivery rates at hospital in the United States
- Conditions
- Pregnancy Complications, Cesarean Section Complications, Maternal Complication of Pregnancy, Communication, Multidisciplinary
- Trial name
- NCT03529214
- Testing
- Exposed study site
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 5,217 people
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Mood Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders
Facilitating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Depression Management in Substance Use Treatment Programs
Comorbid depression has been consistently linked to worse outcomes for patients in substance abuse treatment programs. Practice guidelines recommend pharmacotherapy for comorbid depression if symptoms persist after a 4-week…
- Trial name
- NCT00137306
- Testing
- Facilitate evidence-based treatment for depression
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Myocardial Infarction, Death
Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality Assurance Project
Cohort study aimed at evaluating the incidence of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction after myocardial infraction (MI) and assessing the prognostic utility of change in ejection fraction (EF) over the initial 12 months after MI.
- Conditions
- Myocardial Infarction, Death, Heart Failure
- Trial name
- AMIQA (NCT02399891)
- Testing
- Quality Assurance Implementation, Standard of Care
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 6,000 people
- Sponsor
- Dr. Derek Exner