NCT04127149

Evaluation of Ultra-portable Ultrasound in General Practice

Pragmatic Evaluation of Ultra-portable Ultrasound for a List of Indications in General Practice

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 166 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an interventional multi-centre study comparing two groups of general practitioners with or without an ultrasound scanner over a period of 6 months. The evaluation focuses on the management of patients for 8 pathologies: * Pneumonia * Pleural effusion * Renal colic * Hepatic colic or cholecystitis * Subcutaneous abscess or cyst * Fracture of long bones * Intra-uterine pregnancy or extra-uterine pregnancy or miscarriage * Phlebitis The principal hypothesis is that there are fewer complementary exams in the group of doctors using ultrasound scanners. The secondary hypotheses are: * There is better patient orientation (emergency care, specialist consultation, return home) in the group of doctors using the ultrasound scanners. * The global cost of the care is lower in the group of doctors using the ultrasound. * Using ultrasound during the consultation decreases the anxiety of the patient. * Using ultrasound increases the duration of the consultation. * There is no difference between the predicted and the real orientation of the patients.

Conditions

• Pneumonia
• Pleural Effusion
• Renal Colic
• Hepatic Colic or Cholecystitis
• Subcutaneous Abscess or Cyst
• Fracture of Long Bones
• Intra-uterine Pregnancy or Extra-uterine Pregnancy or Miscarriage
• Phlebitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Ultrasound scan	The group uses an ultrasound device for the consultation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-03
• Primary completion: 2021-10-20
• Completion: 2021-10-20
• First posted: 2019-10-15
• Last updated: 2025-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France