NCT03557073

The Effects of Postoperative Physician Phone Calls for Hand and Wrist Fractures

The Effects of Postoperative Physician Phone Calls for Hand and Wrist Fractures: a Single-blinded, Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery.

Detailed description

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery. Patients who require operative treatment of hand and wrist fractures are randomly assigned to a group that receives a postoperative phone call or the control group that receives the standard postoperative care. Patient reported and medical outcomes are observed starting at 1 month postoperatively.

Conditions

• Hand Injuries
• Trauma
• Hand Injuries and Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Postoperative phone call	The intervention is a phone call on the day following surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2018-06-14
• Last updated: 2019-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States