NCT01810523

Stories to Educate Patients With Ankle, Foot, and Knee Injuries

Comparative Effectiveness of Descriptive Versus Narrative Emergency Department Discharge Instructions for Patient Education on Unnecessary Testing for Ankle, Foot and Knee Injuries

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study will test the use of narratives on patient satisfaction and translation of an evidence-based approach to the use of X-rays for leg injuries in the Emergency Department (ED). The investigators will identify patients with foot, ankle, or knee injuries for whom X-rays are determined to not be needed. On discharge, patients will receive the current fact-based sheet or that plus a narrative explaining the work-up and treatment of these injuries. Outcomes will be assessed by a survey measuring patient satisfaction and understanding.

Conditions

• Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Narrative	Narrative form as described above.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	Blank piece of paper

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2013-03-13
• Last updated: 2016-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States