Status:
UNKNOWN
Digital Rectal Exam Proficiency Tool
Lead Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Conditions:
Prostatic Hyperplasia
Prostate Cancer
Eligibility:
MALE
30-90 years
Brief Summary
A digital rectal exam proficiency tool, titled the 'DiRECT' was developed based on the consensus of 10 experts. The purpose of this study is to validate this tool for use in both undergraduate and gra...
Detailed Description
First, it will be validated on 120 anesthetized patients undergoing prostate surgery, comparing responses on the digital rectal exam clinical tool (DiRECT) from both expert and novice clinicians, with...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Subjects who are patients:
- Patients who are male and adults ≥ 30 years of age
- Standardized patients between the ages of 30-80 years participating in the University of Virginia School of Medicine activity for second-year students learning digital rectal exams
- Subjects who are clinicians:
- • Attending physician, resident physician, or medical student scrubbed in for a prostatectomy or cystectomy, seeing patients in urology clinic, or participating in the School of Medicine activity for second year students learning digital rectal exams
Exclusion
- List the criteria for exclusion
- Patients who do not have a prostate
- Patients with previous pelvic/perineal surgery
- Previously enrolled in this study
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2014
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
June 1 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
410 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02278679
Start Date
October 1 2014
End Date
June 1 2018
Last Update
May 18 2017
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University of Virginia Health System, Dept of Urology
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908