Improving Informed Consent Process for Percutaneous Cholecystostomy in the Emergency Department

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cholecystitis

Treatments: Other: video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01476319

KMUH-IRB-980360

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planning to develop the audiovisual videos and determine whether educational videos are superior to routine discussion for informing patients in the emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy. Eligible patients will be approached when patients will be scheduled and waiting for receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy in the emergency department.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients 18 years of age or older
• scheduled to receive the percutaneous cholecystostomy

Exclusion criteria

• clinically unstable
• refuse to participate
• are unable to understand the study process

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

control

No Intervention group

video

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: video