Clinical trial NCT03674879: Impact of Mobile Text Messaging on Follow Up Rates After Discharge From the Pediatric Emergency Department
Official title: Impact of Mobile Text Messaging on Follow Up Rates After Discharge From the Pediatric Emergency Department
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Duty to Recontact
Keywords: Follow Up
Text Messaging
Lead sponsor: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-09-18
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: To compare the effectiveness of text message versus voice call as a method of contact for providing results of diagnostic tests and assuring ongoing care from the pediatric emergency department.

Detailed description: The investigators plan to conduct a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare two means of contacting patients and their caregivers after discharge from the emergency department in order to provide results of tests: text messaging (intervention group) vs. telephone call (standard group).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* patients under the age of 18 who have had diagnostic testing without finalized results prior to discharge from the emergency department

Exclusion Criteria:

* Admitted patients
* Patients transferred to another facility
* Patients with critical values as results
* Do not have devices that can receive phone and text messages
* Cannot read English or Spanish

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of phone call or text message attempts to successful contact with study participant
timeFrame: Within 2 weeks.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
name: Czer Anthoney E Lim, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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