Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC) Alert; Pulmonary Embolism (PE)

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Embolism

Treatments: Behavioral: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Care in Emergency Department (ED)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06312332

HUM00220089

1R01HL163438-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a quality improvement project to evaluate health care management of pulmonary embolism (PE) patients. The researchers are testing an intervention to determine if it prevents unnecessary hospital admissions.

Full description

The study team anticipates that there will be 5800 acute PE patients over multiple sites. The study team is not recruiting additional sites into the study but tracking of acute PE patients continues.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participation in MEDIC collaborative
• Identified site physician champion
• Annual volume of acute PE ≥80 (measured in 2022)

Exclusion criteria

• Pediatric-only hospital/ED
• No site physician champion identified
• Annual volume of acute PE <80 (measured in 2022)
• Existing formal clinical pathway for outpatient management of low-risk PE

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

MEDIC site

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Care in Emergency Department (ED)