The Effects of Postoperative Physician Phone Calls for Hand and Wrist Fractures

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hand Injuries; Trauma; Hand Injuries and Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Postoperative phone call

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03557073

1712309601

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery.

Full description

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery. Patients who require operative treatment of hand and wrist fractures are randomly assigned to a group that receives a postoperative phone call or the control group that receives the standard postoperative care. Patient reported and medical outcomes are observed starting at 1 month postoperatively.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with isolated injuries of the hand who present to a specific level 1 trauma center in the Midwestern United States
• Patients who have planned surgical treatment by a pre-specified group of surgeons

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have significant trauma to other organ systems proximal to the wrist
• Patients who have open ("compound") fractures (i.e., bone is exposed)
• Children

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Phone Call

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this study arm receive a post-operative phone call by a physician.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Postoperative phone call

No Phone call

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects in this study arm do not receive an additional post-operative phone call by a physician.