Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02304133
Transfer From a Point-of-care Ultrasound Course
Transfer From a Point-of-care Ultrasound Course to Diagnostic Performance on Patients - a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 64 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study explores the effect of a four-hour ultrasound course on physicians' point-of-care ultrasound performance on patients representing acute abdominal surgical conditions.
Detailed description
A randomized controlled trial with physicians was conducted. The intervention group participated in a four-hour abdominal POC US course before performing ultrasound on four patients with different abdominal surgical conditions. The control group did not participate in a course before performing ultrasound on the patients.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Education |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-02-01
- Completion
- 2014-11-01
- First posted
- 2014-12-01
- Last updated
- 2014-12-01
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02304133. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.