Clinical Reminder to Improve Appropriateness of Echocardiography

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Echocardiography

Treatments: Other: Clinical Reminder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04925245

CSRPecho1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will test a clinical reminder to show recent echocardiograms when a new echocardiogram is ordered. The goal is to avoid unnecessary comprehensive echocardiography.

Enrollment: 1,365 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Echo ordered

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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1,365 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical Reminder

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Clinical Reminder

No Reminder

No Intervention group