The CLOQS Trial - Countdown Lights to Optimize Quality in Stroke — CLOQS  

Acute Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title: The CLOQS Trial - Countdown Lights to Optimize Quality in Stroke

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

To reduce door-to-needle times in acute stroke treatment. Using an organizational behaviour intervention (a large stopwatch), we will post a visual cue to remind all parties that "time is brain". We hypothesize that this simple visual cue will improve door-to-CT scan times and door-to-needle treatment times, and thus improve treatment response, and reduce adverse events.

Clinical Trial Description

We will construct a large, "in-your-face" red LED stopwatch-clock that is the intervention. The clock will be attached to the stretcher of patients presenting for hyperacute stroke treatment (consideration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment at the moment of their Emergency department arrival. This will act as a constant visual reminder to all team members (physicians, RN's, CT technologists) of the urgency of the situation. The study will be a block randomization, by week of presentation. All patients presenting during "on" weeks will have a stopwatch timer with them during the hyperacute stroke workup. During "off" weeks, the clocks will not be used. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acute Stroke
• Stroke

• NCT number: NCT01148602
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 2010
• Completion date: April 2012