NCT04216914

BASIC Study: Bone Age Study In Children

Bone Age Study In Children (BASIC): A Simple Intervention to Improve the Quality of Bone Age X-rays

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will see if the introduction of a hand outline on the Xray plate on which the child rests their hand will improve the quality of the Xray and reduce exposure to additional radiation by not having xrays repeated. The child will be asked to stretch their hand flat to match the outline, thus ensuring the correct position.

Detailed description

The study of left wrist/hand Xrays can help children's doctors to ascertain the age of a child's skeleton, know how much growing they still have to do and predict how tall they will be as an adult. The Xray requires the child to keep their hand flat and still and in the correct orientation. Some children, especially young ones, find this difficult and therefore the quality of the Xray can mean that aging the skeleton is difficult and may require the Xray to be taken again. This study will see if the introduction of a hand outline on the Xray plate on which the child rests their hand will improve the quality of the Xray and reduce exposure to additional radiation by not having xrays repeated. The child will be asked to stretch their hand flat to match the outline, thus ensuring the correct position.

Conditions

• Skeletal Age Maturation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hand outline	A simple outline of a hand, to which the child tried to match their own hand on order to improve positioning.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2020-01-03
• Last updated: 2020-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom