NCT05488080

PAINED: Project Addressing INequities in the Emergency Department

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22,032 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Children's National Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Racial and ethnic inequities in health care quality have been described across a broad range of clinical settings, patient populations, and outcomes. Our overarching goal is to eradicate health care inequities through evidence-based interventions. The objectives of this proposal are to develop and test the impact of two interventions on overcoming clinician implicit bias and mitigating inequities in the management of pain among children seeking care in the emergency department for the treatment of appendicitis or long bone fractures.

Conditions

• Pain
• Appendicitis
• Bias, Racial
• Fractures, Bone

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Department-level audit and feedback and electronic health record-embedded clinical decision support	This intervention will provide clinicians with Equity Report Cards and clinician decision support on mitigating disparities in quality of care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-27
• Primary completion: 2026-08-23
• Completion: 2026-08-23
• First posted: 2022-08-04
• Last updated: 2025-07-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States