Hospital vs. Cell Phone Number Follow-Up Randomization Study (FURS)

This study is currently recruiting participants.

Verified June 2012 by University of Pennsylvania

Sponsor:

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

University of Pennsylvania

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01620827

First received: June 13, 2012

Last updated: July 3, 2012

Last verified: June 2012

History of Changes

Purpose

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.

Condition	Intervention
Subject Follow-up	Other: Hospital Landline Phone Calls Other: Private Cell Phone Calls

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label
Official Title:	Study Subject Responsiveness to Follow-Up Phone Calls From a Hospital Landline as Compared With From a Private Cellular Phone Number

Further study details as provided by University of Pennsylvania:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Successful phone call contact at 30 days [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Contact is attempted from 30 days after enrollment through 90 days after enrollment. If contact is made during this time frame, 30 day follow-up is considered to have been successful.

Secondary Outcome Measures:

The number of call attempts required to obtain successful follow-up [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Contact is attempted from 30 days after enrollment through 90 days after enrollment. The number of calls required to make successful contact in this time frame are recorded.

Estimated Enrollment:	400
Study Start Date:	February 2012
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2012
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Hospital Landline Subjects in this arm have all of their follow-up phone calls placed from a hospital landline number.	Other: Hospital Landline Phone Calls Follow-up phone calls are made from the hospital landline phones in a research office
Active Comparator: Private Cell Phone Subjects in this arm have all of their follow-up phone calls placed from a private cell phone number.	Other: Private Cell Phone Calls Follow-up phone calls are made from the private cell phones of research assistants

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01620827

Contacts

Contact: Julie Pitts, BSN RN

215-662-3908

julie.pitts@uphs.upenn.edu

Locations

United States, Pennsylvania
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	Recruiting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
Contact: Emily Barrows, BA 215-662-3908 emily.barrows@uphs.upenn.edu
Contact: Katie O'Conor, BS 215-662-3908 katie.oconor@uphs.upenn.edu

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Pennsylvania

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Judd Hollander, MD

University of Pennsylvania

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	University of Pennsylvania
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01620827 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	HUP-FURS-2012
Study First Received:	June 13, 2012
Last Updated:	July 3, 2012
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by University of Pennsylvania:

follow up
cell phone
hospital landline

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 18, 2013

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