Promoting Organ Donor Registration in Family Physician Offices

NCT03213171 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CIHR-SCT-151609
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 6
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effects of using reception staff to prompt patients by providing a pamphlet and an opportunity to register in the waiting room via a mobile tablet on deceased organ donor registration rates.

Conditions

Organ Donation; Registration for Deceased Organ Donation

Keywords

organ donation; family physician; primary care; clinical trial; registry trial; cluster trial; stepped-wedge

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Donor registration status at 7 days

  Donor registration status (Yes/ Not registered)

  7 days

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Donor registration status at 14 days

  14 days

• Donor registration status at 30 days

  30 days

Study Arms (2)

Usual care

NO INTERVENTION

Usual care / Standard of care No intervention implemented

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Reception staff providing handout; Mobile tablet that provides the immediate opportunity for patients to register in the waiting room

Behavioral: Reception staff providing handout.; Behavioral: Mobile Tablet (e.g. iPad)

Interventions

Reception staff providing handout. BEHAVIORAL

Reception staff will provide an educational pamphlet to patients that have not yet registered for organ donation

Intervention

Mobile Tablet (e.g. iPad) BEHAVIORAL

Patients will have the opportunity to immediately register for organ donation using an a mobile tablet (e.g. IPad)

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years - 105 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may not qualify if:

• Patients that visited a family physician
• Patients that are at least 16 years of age with a valid health card (eligibility criteria to register for organ donation in Ontario)
• \- Working at a site that sees at least 100 patients per week
• \- Working at multiple sites that cannot be separated in analyses

Sponsors & Collaborators

• London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's: lead
• Ottawa Hospital Research Institute: collaborator
• Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences: collaborator
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): collaborator

Study Sites (2)

City of London

London, Ontario, Canada

Location

City of Stratford

Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Li AH, Garg AX, Grimshaw JM, Prakash V, Dunnett AJ, Dixon SN, Taljaard M, Mitchell J, Naylor KL, Faulds C, Bevan R, Getchell L, Knoll G, Kim SJ, Sontrop J, Tong A, Bjerre LM, Hyjek K, Currie D, Edwards S, Sullivan M, Harvey-Rioux L, Presseau J. Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow-1): a pragmatic stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry trial. BMC Med. 2022 Mar 3;20(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02266-8.

  PMID: 35236353 RESULT

• Li AH, Garg AX, Prakash V, Grimshaw JM, Taljaard M, Mitchell J, Matti D, Linklater S, Naylor KL, Dixon S, Faulds C, Bevan R, Getchell L, Knoll G, Kim SJ, Sontrop J, Bjerre LM, Tong A, Presseau J. Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow-1 trial): study protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry. Trials. 2017 Dec 21;18(1):610. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-2333-5.

  PMID: 29268758 RESULT

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: Stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 6, 2017
• First Posted: July 11, 2017
• Study Start: September 27, 2017
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2018
• Study Completion: April 1, 2019
• Last Updated: March 5, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (2)