Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Helen Snooks
ORCID ID
Contact details
School of Post-graduate Studies
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
SA2 8PP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1792 513418
ha.snooks@swan.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Patients will be safely triaged to MIUs and will be satisfied with their care
Ethics approval
Added 12/01/10:
Ethical approval granted by the Multi Centre Research Ethics Committee and by 10 local research ethics committees responsible for the A&E and MIU sites that took part in the study
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Other
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Condition
Emergency medicine
Intervention
Transportation to a MIU rather than A&E
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Added 12/01/10:
1. AS job time (999 call to job finished time)
2. Time to treatment (arrival at unit to time seen by doctor)
3. Total time in unit (arrival at unit to time left unit)
Secondary outcome measures
Added 12/01/10:
Patient reported satisfaction:
1. Ambulance care
2. Satisfaction with outcome of treatment
3. overall quality of care
Overall trial start date
01/09/1999
Overall trial end date
01/09/2001
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Fit certain medical priority dispatch system (MPDS) codes during operational hours
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
834 (added 12/01/10; see publication)
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Outside operating hours
2. Children
Recruitment start date
01/09/1999
Recruitment end date
01/09/2001
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
School of Post-graduate Studies
Swansea
SA2 8PP
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Executive South East (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2004 results in hhtp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14734396
Publication citations
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Snooks H, Foster T, Nicholl J, Results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of triage and direct transportation to minor injuries units by ambulance crews., Emerg Med J, 2004, 21, 1, 105-111.