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 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN53676817 |
| Protocol serial number | N0672168538 |
| Sponsor | Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health |
| Funder | Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust (UK) |
- 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
Scientific
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Cliff Gardens
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom
| Phone | +44 (0)1724 282282 |
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Study information
| Primary study design | Interventional |
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| Study design | Interventional study with a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental group design |
| Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
| 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(s) |
That the introduction of discrepancy meetings in the A&E Department reduces the number of missed injuries by A&E clinicians |
| Key secondary outcome measure(s) |
Not provided at time of registration |
| Completion date | 11/11/2005 |
Eligibility
| Participant type(s) | Patient |
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| Age group | Not Specified |
| Sex | Not Specified |
| Target sample size at registration | 1300 |
| 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
- United Kingdom
- England
Study participating centre
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom
DN15 7BH
United Kingdom
Results and Publications
| Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
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| IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
| IPD sharing plan |
