NCT02114983

General Practitioner-performed Compression Ultrasound for Deep Vein Thrombosis

Precision and Diagnostic Accuracy of General Practitioner-performed Compression Ultrasound for Proximal Symptomatic Deep Vein Thrombosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Azienda Sanitaria Locale ASL 6, Livorno · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Numerous studies have demonstrated excellent diagnostic accuracy of Compression Ultrasonography (CUS) performed by hospitals doctors, skilled and unskilled in Radiology. Recently, it was demonstrated that adequately ultrasonography-trained General Practitioners (GP) can perform reliable ultrasound to increase the speed and improve the quality of clinical management of various clinical conditions. To date, in the medical literature there are no studies that demonstrate the diagnostic accuracy of GP in performing CUS for the diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Therefore, we plan to perform a prospective, multicenter, cohort study in which a large number of consecutive outpatients with symptoms or signs of DVT are subject to the CUS by the GP with the aim of evaluating the precision and the diagnostic accuracy compared to specialists in vascular ultrasound, which in this case will be the standard of reference.

Conditions

• Deep Vein Thrombosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	compression ultrasonography	CUS in patients with a high pre-test clinical probability of DVT and/or a positive D-dimer

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2016-03-01
• First posted: 2014-04-15
• Last updated: 2016-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy