Improving Inpatient Screening for Hepatitis C

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hepatitis C

In brief

This study will use a stepped-wedge cluster randomized clinical trial to evaluate a health system initiative to set defaults in the electronic health record admission order set to nudge inpatient hepatitis C (HCV) screening.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04525690

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

7634

Starts

2020-09-21

Expected to finish

2021-04-10

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-17

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Be admitted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) or Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC)
• Born between 1945 and 1965

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded if they have already received Hepatitis C screening or have been previously diagnosed with Hepatitis C.

Where it is running

• Penn Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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