PIMPmyHospital: a Mobile App to Improve Emergency Care Efficiency and Communication

NCT05203146 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: PIMPmyHospital
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 10
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This pilot study is a prospective, single-center, randomized, controlled trial in a tertiary pediatric emergency department with two parallel groups of voluntary post-graduate year 1 to 5 pediatric residents and registered pediatric emergency nurses. The impact of an mHealth support tool will be compared to conventional methods on the retrieval of laboratory data from the patient's electronic record, and on team collaboration in a semi-simulated emergency department environment. Ten participants are randomized (1:1). The primary endpoint is the time from the availability of new laboratory results for a given patient to their consideration by participants, measured in minutes using a stopwatch.

Conditions

Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Communication

Keywords

Information technologies; Mobile Applications; Laboratory Result Delivery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Hospital Communication Systems; Communication; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Emergency Department

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Time to Laboratory Results

  Time elapsed between the availability of new laboratory results on either the mobile app or the pediatric emergency department's computerized patient data system and their consideration by the participant on the allocated medium (i.e., the mobile app or computerized patient data system), measured using a stopwatch.

  minutes (upper bound arbitrarily set at 2 hours)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Time to Reach Colleagues

  minutes (upper bound arbitrarily set at 2 hours)

Study Arms (2)

Arm A (PIMPmyHospital)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants that will use the mobile heath PIMPmyHospital tool during the semi-simulation-based scenario.

Device: PIMPmyHospital (mobile health tool)

Arm B (Conventional methods)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants that will use conventional methods (i.e., without mobile app support) during the semi-simulation-based scenario.

Other: Conventional method

Interventions

PIMPmyHospital (mobile health tool) DEVICE

Each participant will first be asked to retrieve a factious patient's laboratory results on the app when randomly made available, and then reach a colleague (role played by a study investigator) when asked to do so by a text message on the app.

Arm A (PIMPmyHospital)

Conventional method OTHER

Each participant will first be asked to retrieve a factious patient's laboratory results from the emergency department's computerized patient data system when randomly made available, and then contact a colleague (role played by a study investigator) when asked to do so (request made by a second study investigator).

Arm B (Conventional methods)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 67 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Any postgraduate residents pursuing a \<6 years residency in pediatrics.
• To be registered nurses from the pediatric emergency department.
• To have previously completed a standardized 5-min introductory course on the use of the PIMPmyHospital tool dispensed by the study investigators.
• Participation agreement.

You may not qualify if:

• To have not undergone the standardized 5-min introductory course on the use of the PIMPmyHospital tool dispensed by the study investigators.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Pediatric Clinical Research Platform: lead
• University Hospital, Geneva: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Geneva Children's Hospital, Geneva University Hospitals

Geneva, 1205, Switzerland

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Ehrler F, Tuor C, Rey R, Siebert JN. A Mobile App to Improve Patient Management in Emergency Departments: Caregiver Needs Analysis, Design and Early Technology Acceptance Assessment. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 Oct 27;285:233-238. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210605.

  PMID: 34734879 RESULT

• Ehrler F, Tuor C, Trompier R, Berger A, Ramusi M, Rey R, Siebert JN. Effectiveness of a Mobile App in Reducing Therapeutic Turnaround Time and Facilitating Communication between Caregivers in a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial. J Pers Med. 2022 Mar 9;12(3):428. doi: 10.3390/jpm12030428.

  PMID: 35330427 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Communication; Emergencies

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr Johan N. Siebert
• Organization: University Hospitals of Geneva

Johan.Siebert@hcuge.ch

+41795534072

Study Officials

• Johan N Siebert, MD

  Geneva Children's Hospital, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: Blinding to the outcomes will be maintained during recruitment to minimize preparation bias. Allocation concealment will be ensured with an allocation software (www.sealedenvelope.com) and will not be released until the participants start the scenario. A post-scenario review will be done without blinding by two study investigators, but undertaken independently with each blinded to the other's reviews. In the case of disagreement, a third independent evaluator will help reach a consensus. The data analyst will not be blinded to group allocation.
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD, Deputy Head

Model Details: A prospective, single center, randomized, controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 7, 2022
• First Posted: January 24, 2022
• Study Start: September 6, 2021
• Primary Completion: September 6, 2021
• Study Completion: September 6, 2021
• Last Updated: November 7, 2024
• Results First Posted: November 7, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: Available from 6 month to 5 years after trial publication.
• Access Criteria: * Data will be made available from the corresponding author upon approval of a proposal and with a signed data access agreement. * Deidentified participant data will be made available to qualified external researchers whose proposed use of the data has been approved by their Institutional Review Board. * Data will be made available for a specified research purpose. * The request proposal must include a statistician.

Locations

CH (1)