N/A N=3,990 Supportive Care

Mobile Phone-administered Triage Tool to Followup on Discharged Trauma Patients

Wounds and Injury

Bottom Line

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Enrolled (actual)

3,990

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Nov 2024

Primary outcome: Primary: Proportion of Successful Contacts — 837; 1514 Participants

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: Mobile Phone-based Triage Tool (Other)
Age: Pediatric, Adult, Older Adult
Sex: All
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Primary completion: Aug 2022

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Proportion of Successful Contacts	837; 1514	—
PRIMARY Median Number of Attempts Required to Achieve a Successful Contact	1; 1	—
PRIMARY Median Cost Associated With Personnel Time	3.75; 3.56	—
PRIMARY Median Cost Associated With Telephone Time	2.89; 4.92	—
PRIMARY Telephone Triage Tool Administration Time	81.5	—
PRIMARY Physician Assessment of Whether a Patient Would Benefit From Further Services	323; 237	—
PRIMARY Physician Assessment of Whether a Patient Was at Moderate to High Risk for a Poor Outcome (HR) Without Additional Intervention	357; 160; 43	—
PRIMARY Triage Risk Score (TRS)	220; 217; 123	—
PRIMARY Acceptability Score of Mobile Phones as a Follow-up Tool	1; 0; 0; 3; 3; 11	—
PRIMARY Proportion of Injured Patients Who Seek Clinical Follow-up Evaluation	409; 615	—
SECONDARY Glasgow Outcomes Scale-Extended (GOSE) Disability Level	175; 148; 77; 163; 42; 77	—
SECONDARY Economic Consequences of Injury: Did it Become More Difficult for the Family to Afford Expenses Such as Food and Rent?	524; 768; 200; 150	—
SECONDARY Economic Consequences of Injury: Did the Family Spend Saved Money?	601; 890; 236; 99	—
SECONDARY Economic Consequences of Injury: Did the Family Borrow Money?	370; 476; 467; 513	—

Summary

After being admitted to and then discharged from a hospital in Cameroon for having experienced an injury, there is no established way for the health system to check in on how the discharged person is doing. The investigators have developed a set of questions with the hope that asking these questions--over the phone--to those who have been discharged from the hospital will allow them to determine which post-discharge patients would benefit from further care. The investigators believe that asking these questions over the phone is a good way of determining which post-discharge trauma patients would benefit from further care.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

All trauma registry patients at participating hospitals who provided cellphone numbers and are alive at hospital discharge are eligible for inclusion regardless of age, injury severity, or hospital disposition status.

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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03805646). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.