NCT05488080NARecruiting
PAINED: Project Addressing INequities in the Emergency Department
Children's National Research Institute
Start Date
2/27/2023
Completion Date
8/23/2026
Summary
Racial and ethnic inequities in health care quality have been described across a broad range of clinical settings, patient populations, and outcomes. Our overarching goal is to eradicate health care inequities through evidence-based interventions. The objectives of this proposal are to develop and test the impact of two interventions on overcoming clinician implicit bias and mitigating inequities in the management of pain among children seeking care in the emergency department for the treatment of appendicitis or long bone fractures.
Eligibility Criteria
Age Range: No minimum to No maximum
Inclusion Criteria:
* All Children's National Hospital Emergency Department clinicians
* Patients 0-21 years with symptoms suggestive of appendicitis or long bone fracture
Exclusion Criteria:
* Emergency Severity Index (ESI 1)
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL
Department-level audit and feedback and electronic health record-embedded clinical decision support
Conditions
PainAppendicitisBias, RacialFractures, Bone
Locations
Children's National Hospital
Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20016-1838
United States