Hospital vs. Cell Phone Number Follow-Up Randomization Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Subject Follow-up

In brief

This study is being conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that study subjects will be more responsive to follow-up phone calls made from personal cell phone numbers than from hospital landline numbers. To evaluate this, study subjects previously enrolled in a cardiac biomarker study (the Early Identification of Acute Coronary Syndrome study) were randomized to receive their follow-up phone calls (the calls associated with the Early ID study occur at 30 days and 1 year after initial enrollment) from either a hospital office landline or from the personal cell phones of the research assistants making these calls. This was done as a 1:1 randomization. The number of call attempts required to reach the study subjects were recorded as the calls were made and the date of successful follow-up was recorded once contact was made.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01620827

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

400

Starts

2012-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-08-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Enrollment in the Early Identification of Acute Coronary Syndrome study
• Working telephone numbers

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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