Does the introduction of discrepancy meetings in an Accident and Emergency Department reduce the number of missed injuries by Accident and Emergency clinicians?

ISRCTN	ISRCTN53676817
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN53676817
Secondary identifying numbers	N0672168538

Submission date: 29/09/2006
Registration date: 29/09/2006
Last edited: 30/09/2014

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Ms Verne Cranston
Scientific

Scunthorpe General Hospital
Cliff Gardens
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)1724 282282

Study information

Study design	Interventional study with a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental group design
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Prevention
Scientific title
Study objectives	Do the discrepancy meetings in the Accident and Emergency Departments reduce the number of missed injuries of the referring clinicians?
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Missed injuries by Accident and Emergency clinicians
Intervention	The method used will be an interventional study with a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental group design. The word 'quasi' means as if or almost, so a quasi-experiment means almost a true experiment. For various reasons to do with ethics, small numbers and the difficulties of randomising, true experimental designs are not always possible in the 'real world' of social and health service provision. Therefore, in a clinical and educational context quasi-experiments have thus proved useful. Quasi-experimental designs have some of the properties of true experiments and they are relatively strong in terms of internal validity. Matching instead of randomisation of the groups is used. For the purpose of this study the two groups are matched as two groups of accident and emergency referrers. The pre-test group is not technically a control group, but a comparison group, and this type of matching is sometimes called a non-equivalent group design. Inferences about relationships among variables are made from an assumed variation of an independent variable, in this case in introduction of discrepancy meetings.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	That the introduction of discrepancy meetings in the A&E Department reduces the number of missed injuries by A&E clinicians
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	05/09/2005
Completion date	11/11/2005

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Not Specified
Sex	Not Specified
Target number of participants	1,300
Key inclusion criteria	It is predicted that the likely total will be approximately 1300. The first examinations will then be selected for inclusion in the study.
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	05/09/2005
Date of final enrolment	11/11/2005

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Scunthorpe General Hospital

Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health
Government

The Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)20 7307 2622
Email	dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Website	http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en

Funders

Funder type

Government

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan