NCT02365792

Professional Development in Emergency Medical Services

Efficacy of a Clinical Decision Support System in Prehospital Care: Single Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial.

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 112 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The ProDEms-trial focuses on nurses and ambulance drivers working in prehospital care, taking care on the one hand of patients suffering from time-sensitive critical conditions like STEMI, acute stroke or severe traumatic brain injury, and on the other hand of patients whose lives are not in immediate danger but suffer from acute exacerbation of chronic conditions or suffer from acute pain. In the current study the investigators will use a multistage approach to test the hypothesis whether the use of a CDSS in prehospital emergency care will: 1. Improve protocol adherence, 2. Reduce emergency department length of stay, 3. Improves diagnostic accuracy; without impeding the workflow of the prehospital team or impairing patient safety.

Conditions

• Clinical Decision Support
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Emergency Medical Services

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Clinical Decision Support Tool for Prehospital Care	A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology system that is designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision-making tasks. A working definition of the Centre for Health Evidence: "Clinical Decision Support systems link health observations with health knowledge to influence health choices by clinicians for improved health care".

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2015-02-19
• Last updated: 2023-08-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium