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