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WithdrawnNCT02177149DBSUpdated May 15, 2015

Nurse Management of Neuromodulation Therapy

An interventional study of Standard of Care and DBS using Clinical Support System. in Parkinson's, sponsored by Medical College of Wisconsin. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-05-15.

Sponsored by Medical College of Wisconsin · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

Why this study was withdrawn
PI is no longer at MCW, study has been closed
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The central hypothesis is that the use of a DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) clinical decision support system for individual patient management will enable considerable time savings compared to standard care. This hypothesis was formulated from pilot studies that showed dramatic decreases in DBS programming time compared to standard care for clinicians who used an iPad-based decision support system (99% time savings from over 4 hours to 2 minutes. Study group Parkinson's patients with DBS Systems

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In most cases these subjects have failed to maintain adequate control of their symptoms on medications alone.

The Diagnosis of PD (Parkinson's Disease) and the decision to have DBS qualifies a subject for enrollment. Subjects would be selected because they will require DBS programming.

The investigators will prospectively enroll 20 PD DBS patients at the Froedtert Movement Disorders Center (surgical targets: subthalamic nucleus (STN) or internal segment of globus pallidus (GPi). Post-operative care, patients will be randomized 1/1 to standard care or using the clinical decision support system. The DBS RN will use ImageVis3D Mobile app on the iPad to program the DBS system, this software does not interact with Froedtert imaging systems. The study team uses identified images provided by the Froedtert PACS system, de identifies them, adds a study code. The images are loaded into the software system and used to identify the leads locations. The Patients will be assessed for 6 months starting with the initial DBS programming session. Importantly, the investigators do not anticipate that the clinical decision support tool will provide the final DBS settings, nor do we anticipate that this approach will obviate the need for motor exams. The clinical decision support system will help nurses choose good initial settings and then explore around those initial settings.

The investigators will measure the time spent on DBS programming for patients in each group. The investigators will capture programming session duration, number of programming sessions and total time spent on DBS programming. The investigators will compare total time spent programming for the standard care versus the intervention group.

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Conditions studied

  • Parkinson's
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In context

Lead sponsor

Medical College of Wisconsin is the lead sponsor of 540 studies on the registry; 120 are open to participants now.

Of its 71 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 56 (79%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

Subjects 18 and older with a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease that are scheduled for Deep Brain Stimulation for control of their symptoms and are seen at the Froedtert Neurology Outpatient Clinic.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Patient's that are not candidates for Deep Brain Stimulation.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Standard of Care

    DBS using standard of care.

    Device: Standard of Care

  • Experimental
    DBS Clinical Support System

    DBS using Clinical Support System.

    Device: DBS using Clinical Support System.

Interventions

  • DeviceStandard of Care

    Patients in the standard of care arm will have their DBS programmed per standard of care which is testing multiple settings and looking for symptom relief through a trial and error process.

  • DeviceDBS using Clinical Support System.

    The DBS RN (Registered Nurse) will use ImageVis3D Mobile app on the iPad to program the DBS system, this software does not interact with imaging systems. The study team uses identified images provided by the Froedtert PACS system, de identifies them, adds a study code. The images are loaded into the software system and used to identify the leads locations. The Patients will be assessed for 6 months starting with the initial DBS programming session. Importantly, the investigators do not anticipate that the clinical decision support tool will provide the final DBS settings, nor do the investigators anticipate that the approach will obviate the need for motor exams. The clinical decision support system will help nurses choose good initial settings and then explore around those initial settings.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Measure the effectiveness of DBS decision support system in an established clinic.

    Patients will be assessed using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS, motor section) by a blinded rater (Dr. Hiner, movement disorders neurologist). Patients will be tested in their best "On" state (e.g.on medication, on stimulation). The investigators will compare UPDRS-III scores for the standard care versus the intervention group. The UPDRS, Motor section is performed at each visit. Patient-Reported Outcomes The study team will capture patient-reported QOL (Quality of Life) using PDQ-39 (Parkinson 's Disease Questionnaire. The PDQ-39 is a validated, widely used scale completed by the patient, and is used to assess health-related quality of life in this cohort (Jenkinson, Peto, Fitzpatrick, Greenhall, \& Hyman, 1995). Patients will fill out rating scales using a web-based form on an iPad or workstation during each clinic visit.

    Time frame: 6 months

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 15, 2015, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02177149
Lead sponsor
Medical College of Wisconsin
Responsible party
Christopher Butson (Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 27, 2014
Start date
Feb 2014
Primary completion
Jan 2015 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2015 (estimated)
Last update
May 15, 2015

Study contacts

Christopher Butson, PhD
principal investigator · Medical College of Wiscosnisn

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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