NCT05427838: STEDI2

Simulation Training in Emergency Department Imaging 2

Completed NA Last updated 4 February 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Online training in Skull Fractures in 173 participants. Completed in 31 December 2025.

Timeline

7 April 2022

Primary endpoint
31 October 2025

31 December 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	crossover
Masking	single
Primary purpose	diagnostic
Enrollment	173
Start date	7 April 2022
Primary completion	31 October 2025
Estimated completion	31 December 2025
Sites	6 locations across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• Online training

Conditions studied

• Skull Fractures — all drugs for Skull Fractures →
• Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →
• Intracranial Bleed — all drugs for Intracranial Bleed →
• Brain Tumor — all drugs for Brain Tumor →

Sponsor

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Skull Fractures or Stroke. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background and study aims:

Computerised Tomography (CT) head scans are frequently requested by Emergency Department (ED) clinicians as one of the investigations for their patients. This often causes a delay when waiting for specialist radiologists to report the findings of the scan. The purpose of this study is to see if online training can improve the ability of ED clinicians to interpret the scans themselves, to a level sufficient to make clinical decisions based on their findings and to explore what aspects of this process they find most challenging.

Participants:

Emergency Department clinicians who are working in the Emergency Departments of participating sites between April to September 2022 (inclusive), who request CT Head scans as part of their routine clinical practice.

What does the study involve?:

180 ED clinicians will be recruited across 6 hospital sites in the United Kingdom. All will undertake a baseline online assessment to measure their accuracy in interpreting CT head scans.

One group will then undertake an online training module, with a subsequent assessment immediately afterwards, then over the following 3 months will record interpretations for 30 CT head scans.

Head images encountered in participants' routine clinical practice, and their findings, will be compared with the radiology reports for each scan. Participants will then undertake further online assessments 3 and 6 months after the start of the study. Their overall results will be compared with a control group, who will undergo the same process, but undertake the online training after they have tried to interpret 30 scans in their clinical practice.

Participants will continue to base their clinical decisions on radiologist reports, not their own interpretations, so patient care will not be affected by this study.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.