The "Concussion or Brain Bleed" Trial

Mayo Clinic

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Head Injury

Treatments: Other: Concussion and Brain Bleed App (CBB)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04002505

19-000224

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to understand the effect of educating patients and encouraging shared decision making on rates of CT scanning in head injured patients by using an already developed app and observing the effect on the health care provider.

Enrollment: 370 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-65 years old
• Present to the Emergency Department with a blunt head injury within the past 24 hours
• Determined to be low risk by the Canadian CT Head Rules (CCHR), and are being considered for a head CT by the treating provider.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are pregnant
• Non-English speaking
• In police custody
• Undergoing psychiatric evaluation
• Found to have drug or alcohol intoxication

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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370 participants in 1 patient group

Head Injury Subject

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects that present to the Emergency Department with a blunt head injury within the past 24 hours, determined to be low risk by the Canadian CT Head Rules (CCHR), and are being considered for a head CT by the treating provider will use the shared decision making tool Concussion and Brain Bleed app (CBC) with their clinician

Treatment:

Other: Concussion and Brain Bleed App (CBB)