A Communication Tool to Assist Severely Injured Older Adults
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Official title
Best Case/Worst Case Trauma Study: A Communication Tool to Assist Severely Injured Older Adults
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to test the effect of the "Best Case/Worse Case" (BC/WC) communication tool on the quality of communication with older patients admitted to two trauma units. The intervention was developed and tested with acute care surgical patients at the University of Wisconsin (UW) and we are now testing whether the intervention will work in a different setting. We will test the intervention with severely injured older adults at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and Parkland Memorial Hospital (PMH) at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTS). In the first year, UTS/PMH and OHSU will recruit and enroll 50 patients in the control arm (total, for both sites) and train trauma surgeons to use the best case/worst case tool. In the second year, UTS/PMH and OHSU will recruit and enroll 50 patients in the intervention arm (total, for both sites). UW will compare survey-reported and chart-derived measures before and after clinicians learn to use the best case/worst case tool.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03188055
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 298 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 50 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 13, 2017
- Primary completion
- Dec 19, 2019
- Completion
- Mar 2, 2020
- Last update posted
- Nov 3, 2025
2017 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Health Sciences University | Portland | Oregon | 97239-3098 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
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