An interventional study of Postoperative phone call in Hand Injuries, Trauma and Hand Injuries and Disorders, sponsored by Indiana University. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-02-28.
Sponsored by Indiana University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery.
This study seeks to determine if postoperative phone calls by a physician affect outcomes in hand surgery. Patients who require operative treatment of hand and wrist fractures are randomly assigned to a group that receives a postoperative phone call or the control group that receives the standard postoperative care. Patient reported and medical outcomes are observed starting at 1 month postoperatively.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Subjects in this study arm receive a post-operative phone call by a physician.
Behavioral: Postoperative phone call
Subjects in this study arm do not receive an additional post-operative phone call by a physician.
The intervention is a phone call on the day following surgery.
Brief Michigan Hand Questionnaire Score Difference
A patient reported measure of hand function on a scale of 1 to 100. 100 indicates better hand function and 1 indicates worse hand function. The measure is obtained form a survey that has been published in multiple peer reviewed articles. This score can be subtracted from preoperative score to obtain a difference in score of preoperative compared to postoperative.
Time frame: 1 month postoperatively.
Patient compliance with treatment recommendations
Patient compliance with treatment as documented in their medical record. Patients are either compliant or not compliant (values can be 0 or 1), i.e., their physician states that they followed instructions or they did not.
Time frame: 1 month postoperatively
Patient satisfaction with their overall care
Patient satisfaction with their overall care, as determined on a 5 point Likert scale. 1 is strongly satisfied whereas 5 is strongly dissatisfied.
Time frame: 1 month postoperatively.
Patient complication
Patient either has a complication or does not (values can be 0 or 1), i.e., their physician states that they had a complication.
Time frame: 1 month postoperatively
Plan to share: Undecided
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