Improving Informed Consent Process for Percutaneous Cholecystostomy in the Emergency Department

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital22 enrolled

Overview

This study is planning to develop the audiovisual videos and determine whether educational videos are superior to routine discussion for informing patients in the emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy. Eligible patients will be approached when patients will be scheduled and waiting for receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy in the emergency department.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Cholecystitis

Interventions

videoOTHER

The intervention group includes patients who obtain information about percutaneous cholecystostomy from a video will view at their bedside on a laptop.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * All patients 18 years of age or older * scheduled to receive the percutaneous cholecystostomy Exclusion Criteria: * clinically unstable * refuse to participate * are unable to understand the study process

Locations (1)

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

knowledge and satisfaction measure

One questionnaire will be used as an outcome measure tool. Participants will be asked to complete one questionnaire with knowledge test and satisfaction evaluation with the process of informed consent after the educational sessions.

Time frame: immediately after intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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