Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0672168538
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Do the discrepancy meetings in the Accident and Emergency Departments reduce the number of missed injuries of the referring clinicians?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
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
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Prevention
Patient information sheet
Condition
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
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
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 trial start date
05/09/2005
Overall trial end date
11/11/2005
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant 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.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
1,300
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
05/09/2005
Recruitment end date
11/11/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health
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
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust (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
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary