The Actuate-CBC Study

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Telemedicine

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

UCI Health Regional Burn Center, Orange, California, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

Tool Kit

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.

Primary outcomes

Examine the relationships between clinician perceptions of feasibility, acceptability, intention to use, and the actual use of acute burn teleconsultation.

Time frame: 4 years

The study team will look at the differences in opinions between the Aim 1 and 2 interviews and surveys as well as the referral numbers being collected and compare that to the Aim 3 data from interviews and surveys as well as actual referral data to see if there is an increase in the use of telemedicine.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Amanda Bettencourt, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

Kelly E Farraday, MSOD

CONTACT

[email protected]

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Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Pennsylvania

Other

Registry information

Official study title

THE Actuate-CBC Study: Accelerating the Uptake of Telemedicine for Crisis Burn Care

Acronym: ACTUATE

Important dates

Study start: 2023
Primary completion: 2026
Study completion: 2027
First posted: Jun 26, 2023
Registry last updated: Jun 29, 2026

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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