NCT06312332

Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC) Alert; Pulmonary Embolism (PE)

Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC) AltERnaTives to Admission for Pulmonary Embolism

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a quality improvement project to evaluate health care management of pulmonary embolism (PE) patients. The researchers are testing an intervention to determine if it prevents unnecessary hospital admissions.

Detailed description

The study team anticipates that there will be 5800 acute PE patients over multiple sites.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Embolism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Care in Emergency Department (ED)	Utilize implementation mapping to facilitate intervention development and evaluation that can be disseminated broadly in diverse settings. Intervention to include a structured education program for clinicians on home management of patients with low-risk PE led by regional/national leaders, the development of Clinician pre-commitment, point-of-care nudge including a clinical guideline integrated into an electronic health record clinical decision support, facilitated medication access, and dedicated outpatient rapid-follow up.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-01
• Primary completion: 2026-08-01
• Completion: 2026-08-01
• First posted: 2024-03-15
• Last updated: 2025-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States