Universal Screening for Tuberculosis and Anemia With the CHICA System

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Iron Deficiency Anemia; Tuberculosis

Treatments: Other: CHICA Diagnosis Module; Other: CHICA Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01322841

5K22LM009160 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

CHICA_Screening

Details and patient eligibility

About

The CHICA system is a clinical decision support system that uses adaptive turnaround documents to provide point-of-care information to clinicians. The investigators will be studying whether it can help in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and iron deficiency anemia.

Full description

The CHICA system is a clinical decision support system that uses adaptive turnaround documents to provide point-of-care information to clinicians. We will be studying whether it can help in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and iron deficiency anemia.

Enrollment: 2,239 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age 3 to 11 years old and seen in a study clinic

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,239 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

CHICA Diagnosis Module

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm had the CHICA screening module turned on

Treatment:

Other: CHICA Diagnosis Module

CHICA Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This arm had CHICA but no additional module

Treatment:

Other: CHICA Placebo