The Effects of Postoperative Physician Phone Calls for Hand and Wrist Fractures

Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effects of Postoperative Physician Phone Calls for Hand and Wrist Fractures: a Single-blinded, Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03557073
• Other study ID #: 1712309601
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: Indiana University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery.

Description:

This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery. Patients who require operative treatment of hand and wrist fractures are randomly assigned to a group that receives a postoperative phone call or the control group that receives the standard postoperative care. Patient reported and medical outcomes are observed starting at 1 month postoperatively.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with isolated injuries of the hand who present to a specific level 1 trauma center in the Midwestern United States

• Patients who have planned surgical treatment by a pre-specified group of surgeons

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have significant trauma to other organ systems proximal to the wrist

• Patients who have open ("compound") fractures (i.e., bone is exposed)

• Children

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hand Injuries
• Hand Injuries and Disorders
• Trauma
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Postoperative phone call
The intervention is a phone call on the day following surgery.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Eskenazi Hospital	Indianapolis	Indiana

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Indiana University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Patient compliance with treatment recommendations	Patient compliance with treatment as documented in their medical record. Patients are either compliant or not compliant (values can be 0 or 1), i.e., their physician states that they followed instructions or they did not.	1 month postoperatively
Other	Patient satisfaction with their overall care	Patient satisfaction with their overall care, as determined on a 5 point Likert scale. 1 is strongly satisfied whereas 5 is strongly dissatisfied.	1 month postoperatively.
Other	Patient complication	Patient either has a complication or does not (values can be 0 or 1), i.e., their physician states that they had a complication.	1 month postoperatively
Primary	Brief Michigan Hand Questionnaire Score Difference	A patient reported measure of hand function on a scale of 1 to 100. 100 indicates better hand function and 1 indicates worse hand function. The measure is obtained form a survey that has been published in multiple peer reviewed articles. This score can be subtracted from preoperative score to obtain a difference in score of preoperative compared to postoperative.	1 month postoperatively.