The Actuate-CBC Study (ACTUATE)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Telemedicine

Treatments: Behavioral: Tool kit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05917652

850877

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study team will use implementation science to accelerate the uptake of teleconsultationfor burn patients by 1) examining the relationships between clinician perceptions of acceptability, feasibility, intention to use, and actual use of burn teleconsultation 2) identifying the optimal process for burn teleconsultation and the barriers and facilitators for its use during a crisis or prolonged care situation, and 3) designing and testing the effectiveness of a specific, tailored burn teleconsultation toolkit intervention to increase burn teleconsultation use.

Full description

The principal investigator's central hypothesis is that a tailored implementation intervention (toolkit) that integrates the known advantages of using telemedicine for burn consultation with new knowledge regarding clinician perceptions and the setting in which they work will improve the feasibility, acceptance, intention to use, and uptake of burn teleconsultation. The implementation intervention will enable rapid burn teleconsultation implementation under crisis circumstances and assist clinicians to virtually connect the person caring for a burn patient anywhere to the entire burn team's expertise. The study results will lead to more robust national crisis, wartime, and disaster response plans, improve quality of burn care, and decrease morbidity and mortality from serious burn injury, regardless of injury location.

Enrollment: 2,183 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older and
• are providing burn care to patients at the 4 burn centers and the non-burnhospitals are eligible for inclusion.

Exclusion criteria

• do not meet inclusion criteria,
• decline to participate or do not give consent to participate in the study, •
• directly express uneasiness about the participation

Trial design

2,183 participants in 2 patient groups

RedCap surverys

Description:

The study team will use REDCap to send an IRB approved secure electronic survey

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tool kit

Interviews

Description:

The study team plans to do about 18-23 one-on-one interviews with clinicians (burn care nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers, therapists) or will progress until data saturation is reached.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tool kit