Effectiveness of a Mobile App in Reducing Therapeutic TAT in an Emergency Department

NCT05557331 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: PIMPmyHospital pre-post study
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 18
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

This study is a single center, non-equivalent comparison group, pre-post study in a tertiary pediatric emergency department in Switzerland. the study will compare the control and experimental groups on outcome measures before (12-month period) and after (6-month period) the intervention consisting of the implementation and use of the evidence-based mobile app-the ''Patients In My Pocket in my Hospital'' (PIMPmyHospital) app. The primary outcome will be the mean elapsed time in minutes between the delivery of lab results and the emergency department caregivers accessing them before (i.e., on the institutional electronic medical records) and after the implementation of the app (i.e, directly on the app).

Conditions

Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Therapeutic Turnaround Time

Keywords

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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Time to lab results review

  The mean elapsed time in minutes between the delivery of the lab results and the caregiver accessing them, both before and after the implementation of the app.

  1 year (retrospective) and 6 months (prospective)

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Unified Theory of Acceptance, and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

  6 months

• System Usability Scale (SUS)

  6 months

• Emergency department length of stay

  1 year (retrospective) and 6 months (prospective)

• Cognitive alerts

  1 year (retrospective) and 6 months (prospective)

Study Arms (2)

Pre-intervention (no app)

NO INTERVENTION

Participants before (12-month retrospective period) the implementation of the app in the emergency department.

Post-intervention (PIMPmyHospital app)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants that will use the mobile heath PIMPmyHospital app during the prospective 6-month period after the implementation of the app in the emergency department.

Device: PIMPmyHospital (mobile app)

Interventions

PIMPmyHospital (mobile app) DEVICE

After the implementation of the app, data will be collected prospectively over a 6-month period of use. This will include the times (HH:MM:SS) when the results issued by the central laboratory are made available on caregivers' mobile app and access times (as well as concurrent or preferred access times on the conventional computerized workstations should this occur).

Post-intervention (PIMPmyHospital app)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 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.
• Any pediatric emergency medicine fellows.
• To be registered nurses from the pediatric emergency department.
• Participation agreement.

You may not qualify if:

• none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Pediatric Clinical Research Platform: lead

Study Sites (2)

Geneva Children's Hospital, Geneva University Hospitals

Geneva, Canton of Geneva, 1205, Switzerland

RECRUITING

Geneva Children's Hospital, Geneva University Hospitals

Geneva, Canton of Geneva, 1205, Switzerland

RECRUITING

Related Publications (3)

• 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 BACKGROUND

• 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 BACKGROUND

• Ehrler F, Tuor C, Rey R, Trompier R, Berger A, Ramusi M, Courvoisier DS, Siebert JN. Effectiveness of a Mobile App (PIMPmyHospital) in Reducing Therapeutic Turnaround Times in an Emergency Department: Protocol for a Pre- and Posttest Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2023 May 3;12:e43695. doi: 10.2196/43695.

  PMID: 37133909 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emergencies

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Study Officials

• Johan N Siebert, MD

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

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Johan N Siebert, MD

CONTACT

+41 79 553 40 72; Johan.Siebert@hcuge.ch

Frederic Ehrler, PhD

CONTACT

Frederic.Ehrler@hcuge.ch

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Although neither the participants nor the study investigators can be blinded to the intervention, both will be blinded to the results of the study until their final analysis by the statistician. Participants will be informed only of the overall purpose of the study, which is to evaluate the effects of the app on quality of care, but not about the aim of reducing the time to access laboratory results to minimize bias. The statistician will remain blinded to allocation until the final analysis.
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD, Deputy Head of the Pediatric Emergency Department, Pediatric Emergency Physician

Model Details: A single center, non-equivalent comparison group, pre-post study.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 18, 2022
• First Posted: September 28, 2022
• Study Start: March 1, 2025
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2025
• Study Completion: December 1, 2025
• Last Updated: August 19, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-08

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

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