Hospital vs. Cell Phone Number Follow-Up Randomization Study (FURS)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Subject Follow-up

Treatments: Other: Hospital Landline Phone Calls; Other: Private Cell Phone Calls

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01620827

HUP-FURS-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is being conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that study subjects will be more responsive to follow-up phone calls made from personal cell phone numbers than from hospital landline numbers. To evaluate this, study subjects previously enrolled in a cardiac biomarker study (the Early Identification of Acute Coronary Syndrome study) were randomized to receive their follow-up phone calls (the calls associated with the Early ID study occur at 30 days and 1 year after initial enrollment) from either a hospital office landline or from the personal cell phones of the research assistants making these calls. This was done as a 1:1 randomization. The number of call attempts required to reach the study subjects were recorded as the calls were made and the date of successful follow-up was recorded once contact was made.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrollment in the Early Identification of Acute Coronary Syndrome study
• Working telephone numbers

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

400 participants in 2 patient groups

Hospital Landline

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this arm have all of their follow-up phone calls placed from a hospital landline number.

Treatment:

Other: Hospital Landline Phone Calls

Private Cell Phone

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this arm have all of their follow-up phone calls placed from a private cell phone number.

Treatment:

Other: Private Cell Phone Calls