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Real-life clinical meetings for Decision Making

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Research Sponsored by Laval University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

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Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up retrospective analysis during a year (10 hours/week)

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This study aims to adapt two decision aids (DAs) (pediatric and adult) developed in the United States to the Quebec context to develop context-adapted tools and training program that will facilitate the process of shared decision-making while taking a decision to use head computed tomography (CT scan) with patients suffering from a mild traumatic brain injury.

Eligible Conditions

Concussion
Decision Making
Emergency

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ interviews or departmental meeting or clinical encounters with participants over a duration of one year

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~interviews or departmental meeting or clinical encounters with participants over a duration of one year

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and interviews or departmental meeting or clinical encounters with participants over a duration of one year for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Adapting two decision aids to the context of trauma care in Quebec.

Create a training program about SDM in the context of the care of mTBI patients.

Understand CT scan overuse in two hospitals.

Trial Design

5Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Real-life clinical meetingsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

This step will include a presentation of the tools to 5 emergency physicians so that they can use the tools with patients (5 adults, 5 parents of pediatric patients) in a realistic setting to identify any problems of use. The clinicians and patients that had used the tools during the clinical encounters will be then met during cognitive interviews to collect their comments on the tools and to address any usability issues. A final revision of the prototypes is scheduled at the end of this step.

Group II: Retrospective analysisActive Control1 Intervention

This step will retrospectively analyze the medical records of traumatic brain injury adult patients (adult, 350, Hotel-Dieu de Levis) and pediatric patients (406, CHU de Sainte-Justine and Hotel-Dieu de Levis)) randomly selected throughout the year preceding this study in each of the two centers to determine the rate of head CT ordering, the head CT result and the appropriateness of having ordered the head CT based on the CCHR and PECARN criteria. One reviewer will judge the appropriateness of having done a CT scan according to the CCHR and PECARN criteria based on a structured extraction form that will previously be approved by the study's steering committee. To ensure validity, 10% of the analysis will be reviewed by an expert. The reviewer will look at prehospital data collection, triage information, physician's notes, nursing notes and head CT requisition form information to determine if any of the clinical decision rule criteria are present.

Group III: Training session developementActive Control1 Intervention

This step includes the development of a training session on how to perform SDM with patients facing the decision to undergo head CTs for mTBI and about how to use our newly developed decision aids in this clinical setting. The content of the training session will be adapted to the needs, goals, strengths and limitations observed during the focus groups (departmental meetings) exploring health professionals' barriers to using a decision aid about head CTs in mTBI. The expertise of SAVIE (www.savie.ca) in producing online and interactive elearning programs will be mobilized in order to produce a training program that will integrate the content the investigators will have identified as the main skills, knowledge and competencies needing development among our health professionals to stimulate the use of SDM and our decision aids. SAVIE will produce a virtual elearning program adaptable to all media (PC, mobile device, tablet) and different health professionals.

Group IV: Rapid prototyping with patientsActive Control1 Intervention

This step will include the assessment of the tools by patients (or parents of patients) that have had a previous mTBI at the CISSS-CA (Hotel-Dieu de Levis). The comments about the adult and pediatric prototypes (5 adult patients, 5 parents of pediatric patients) will be collected through interviews. A revision of the prototypes is scheduled at the end of this step.

Group V: Translation, Redesign and Rapid prototyping with cliniciansActive Control1 Intervention

This step includes a translation of the tools (English to French) and a redesign work of the original tools. Then, the study will include clinicians (at least 20) from two healthcare settings (CHU Sainte-Justine, and the CISSS-CA (Hotel-Dieu de Levis). After a presentation of the two tools during the Emergency Physicians' departmental meetings, the written comments about the prototype version will be collected. A revision of the prototypes is scheduled at the end of this step.

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