Decision Aids Upper and Lower Extremity
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Upper Extremity Dysfunction, Lower Extremity Problem
In brief
This study aims to assess differences in choice of treatment (and the rationale behind it), physical function, pain intensity, satisfaction, and decision regret between orthopedic patients who review a decision aid during their visit and those that do not. Decision aids for 23 different conditions are included.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03643978
- Run by
- University of Texas at Austin
- People needed
- 168
- Starts
- 2018-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-03-08
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- English-speaking, adult patients seeing an upper or lower extremity surgeon for a new visit regarding diagnoses that can be treated invasively and non-invasively:
- Shoulder
- Clavicle fracture in the middle
- Clavicle fracture close to the shoulder
- Proximal humerus fracture
- Humerus shaft fracture
- Distal humerus fracture
- Elbow
- Lateral epicondylitis
- Ruptured biceps at the elbow
- Olecranon fracture
- Radial head fracture
- Olecranon bursitis
- Hand/wrist
- Distal radius fracture
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Scaphoid fracture
- Thumb arthrosis
- Trigger finger
- Mallet fracture
- de Quervain tendinopathy
- Wrist ganglion
- Dupuytren
- Knee • Knee arthritis: cortisone injection
- Hip
You may not qualify if…
- Obvious indication for one treatment approach, either from the surgeon or the patient perspective.
- Patients who do not want to be contacted for follow-up.
- Non-English speaking patients, because the decision aids used in this study are not currently validated to non-English language.
Where it is running
- Austin Regional Clinic — Austin, Texas, United States
- Texas Orthopedics — Austin, Texas, United States
- HTB Musculoskeletal Institute — Austin, Texas, United States
- Seton Institute for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery — Austin, Texas, United States
- Orthopedic Specialists of Austin — Austin, Texas, United States
- ATX Ortho — Austin, Texas, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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