Improving Informed Consent Process for Percutaneous Cholecystostomy in the Emergency Department

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01476319

Enrollment

Registered

2011-11-22

Start date

2009-11-09

Completion date

2014-09-09

Last updated

2017-04-07

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Conditions

Cholecystitis

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERvideo

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

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
knowledge and satisfaction measure	immediately after intervention	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.

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026