EHR Embedded Comparative Effectiveness Studies--CPS (EHR-CPS)

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disk Herniated Lumbar

Treatments: Behavioral: Activity Restriction; Behavioral: Activity as Tolerated

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04520009

SFD20160

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomize Everyone is a research project to develop new informatics systems and statistical methods for supporting randomization processes in EHR systems to do comparative effectiveness research. Two demonstration projects are being conducted in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, designed to evaluate different weight loss interventions and common practices in the treatment of chronic low back pain.

Full description

EHR Embedded Comparative Effectiveness Studies-CPS will be held in the Center for Pain and Spine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. This study consists of randomizing enrollees to either activity restriction or no activity restriction following lumbar discectomy.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults (>18) able to consent
• Sufficient fluency in English
• Indications for discectomy
• Able to restrict activities or to resume activities as tolerated

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women
• Prisoners
• Children (<18).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Activity Restriction

Active Comparator group

Description:

Discharge orders for activity restriction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Activity Restriction

Activity As Tolerated

Active Comparator group

Description:

Discharge orders written for activity as tolerated

Treatment:

Behavioral: Activity as Tolerated