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Assessing the Impact of a Mobile Device App to Improve Emergency Care Efficiency and Remote Collaborative and Synchronous Communication in a Pediatric Emergency Department: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating PIMPmyHospital (mobile health tool) and Conventional method for Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Communication. Completed, enrolled 10 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This pilot study is a prospective, single-center, randomized, controlled trial in a tertiary pediatric emergency department with two parallel groups of voluntary post-graduate year 1 to 5 pediatric residents and registered pediatric emergency nurses. The impact of an mHealth support tool will be compared to conventional methods on the retrieval of laboratory data from the patient's electronic record, and on team collaboration in a semi-simulated emergency department environment. Ten participants are randomized (1:1). The primary endpoint is the time from the availability of new laboratory results for a given patient to their consideration by participants, measured in minutes using a stopwatch.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Each participant will first be asked to retrieve a factious patient's laboratory results on the app when randomly made available, and then reach a colleague (role played by a study investigator) when asked to do so by a text message on the app.
Each participant will first be asked to retrieve a factious patient's laboratory results from the emergency department's computerized patient data system when randomly made available, and then contact a colleague (role played by a study investigator) when asked to do so (request made by a second study investigator).