Increasing Stroke Treatment Through Interventional Change Tactics Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a standardized, system-based, barrier assessment and interactive educational intervention to increase appropriate t-PA use for stroke.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00349479

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

24

Starts

2005-05-01

Expected to finish

2010-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-02-25

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Physician staffed emergency department at all times
• 24/7 CT scanning availability
• Computerized pharmacy dispensing system for the emergency department or thrombolytic use log
• Agreement to participate and identified site investigator

You may not qualify if…

• Primary children's, psychiatric, or long-term (convalescent) care hospital
• Established academic comprehensive stroke center (Detroit Receiving Hospital, Henry Ford Hospital, University of Michigan)
• Annual emergency department volume greater than 100,000 patients per year (only one hospital)

Where it is running

• University of Michigan, Department of Emergency Medicine — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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