The Actuate-CBC Study

NCT ID: NCT05917652

Last Updated: 2025-07-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 2183 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-01-04
• Study Completion Date: 2027-06-15

Brief Summary

The study team will use implementation science to accelerate the uptake of teleconsultationfor burn patients by 1) examining the relationships between clinician perceptions of acceptability, feasibility, intention to use, and actual use of burn teleconsultation 2) identifying the optimal process for burn teleconsultation and the barriers and facilitators for its use during a crisis or prolonged care situation, and 3) designing and testing the effectiveness of a specific, tailored burn teleconsultation toolkit intervention to increase burn teleconsultation use.

Detailed Description

The principal investigator's central hypothesis is that a tailored implementation intervention (toolkit) that integrates the known advantages of using telemedicine for burn consultation with new knowledge regarding clinician perceptions and the setting in which they work will improve the feasibility, acceptance, intention to use, and uptake of burn teleconsultation. The implementation intervention will enable rapid burn teleconsultation implementation under crisis circumstances and assist clinicians to virtually connect the person caring for a burn patient anywhere to the entire burn team's expertise. The study results will lead to more robust national crisis, wartime, and disaster response plans, improve quality of burn care, and decrease morbidity and mortality from serious burn injury, regardless of injury location.

Conditions

Telemedicine

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

RedCap surverys

The study team will use REDCap to send an IRB approved secure electronic survey

Tool kit

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The study team will develop and design key elements of the implementation intervention (toolkit) among a small group of burn and non-burn clinician stakeholders (4-6 total). The study team will use in-person interviews with stakeholders and a semi-structured interview guide to elicit feedback and assess face and content validity of the toolkit elements prior to deployment across the study hospitals. For those who consent to participation, the study team will conduct virtual teleconference interviews in-person using a secure videoconferencing platform while the person is not working, at a time convenient for them. Interviews will last between 45 and 60 minutes. The study team anticipates conducting 4-6 interviews to finalize toolkit elements prior to implementation.

Interviews

The study team plans to do about 18-23 one-on-one interviews with clinicians (burn care nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers, therapists) or will progress until data saturation is reached.

Tool kit

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The study team will develop and design key elements of the implementation intervention (toolkit) among a small group of burn and non-burn clinician stakeholders (4-6 total). The study team will use in-person interviews with stakeholders and a semi-structured interview guide to elicit feedback and assess face and content validity of the toolkit elements prior to deployment across the study hospitals. For those who consent to participation, the study team will conduct virtual teleconference interviews in-person using a secure videoconferencing platform while the person is not working, at a time convenient for them. Interviews will last between 45 and 60 minutes. The study team anticipates conducting 4-6 interviews to finalize toolkit elements prior to implementation.

Interventions

Tool kit

The study team will develop and design key elements of the implementation intervention (toolkit) among a small group of burn and non-burn clinician stakeholders (4-6 total). The study team will use in-person interviews with stakeholders and a semi-structured interview guide to elicit feedback and assess face and content validity of the toolkit elements prior to deployment across the study hospitals. For those who consent to participation, the study team will conduct virtual teleconference interviews in-person using a secure videoconferencing platform while the person is not working, at a time convenient for them. Interviews will last between 45 and 60 minutes. The study team anticipates conducting 4-6 interviews to finalize toolkit elements prior to implementation.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older and
• are providing burn care to patients at the 4 burn centers and the non-burnhospitals are eligible for inclusion.

• decline to participate or do not give consent to participate in the study, •
• directly express uneasiness about the participation

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Amanda Bettencourt

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

UCI Health Regional Burn Center

Orange, California, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Massachusetts General Hospital Sumner Redstone Burn Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Regions Hospital Burn Center

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Kelly E Farraday, MSOD

Role: CONTACT

kellyfar@nursing.upenn.edu

2152793718

Amanda Bettencourt, PhD

Role: CONTACT

paamanda@nursing.upenn.edu

Facility Contacts

Victor Joe, MD

Role: primary

John Schulz, MD

Role: primary

Gary Verycruysse, MD

Role: primary

Mark Johnston, RN

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

850877

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id