Service Development of POCUS in the IBD Clinic

University College London (UCL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Point-of-care ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05838196

155436

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study to determine whether the use of an ultrasound completed during an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinic will speed up diagnosis, treatment initiation, reduce complications, save money and reduce investigations compared with our current standard of care.

Full description

After being provided with study information and providing written informed consent, participants attending the inflammatory bowel disease clinic will be randomised to standard of care or to receiving an ultrasound during the clinic appointment. This ultrasound result will be used to determine treatment decisions. Participants will have a 6 month follow-up to capture outcome data and further medical record review will be conducted at one year.

Enrollment: 122 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 16 years or above

• Attending IBD clinic face-to-face

• Able to give informed consent.

• Belonging to one of the following groups:

  1. New patients with high clinical suspicion of IBD
  2. Known UC/IBD-U and possible flare
  3. Known Crohn's and possible flare
  4. Known IBD and assessing response to a new medication or following surgery
  5. Known IBD and clinician planning endoscopic or radiological investigations

Exclusion criteria

• Inflammatory bowel disease limited to proctitis with no clinical suspicion of extension

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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122 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participant will follow standard of care

Point-of-care Ultrasound

Experimental group

Description:

Participant will receive point-of-care ultrasound at time of clinic appointment and clinician will use result to inform treatment decision

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Point-of-care ultrasound