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- Clinical Trial NCT01855646
Improved Patient Handoffs to Prevent Sentinel Events
November 23, 2016 updated by: Duke University
Patient Acuity Score With Improved Patient Handoffs to Prevent Sentinel Events
The overall aim of this project is to improve the quality of the handoffs between hospitalists on the general medicine service at Durham Regional Hospital with the intent of improving transitions of care.
The intervention will be an improved and more structured face to face sign-out process using a standardized admission sign-out sheet, which is not part of the official medical record.
Daytime admitting physicians will assign an acuity score to their patients in which the severity of illness will be scored from 1-7, with 7 being the most sick / likely to have rapid response team (RRT) or adverse event.
The assignment of this score would be based off of the clinician's judgment in the patient's overall assessment.
All patients, age >18 years, admitted to the non-resident hospital medicine general medicine service at DRH will be study eligible.
Data analysis will examine aggregate hospitalist perception of sign-out practice before and after intervention, total number of RRTs, unplanned transfers, and rapid responses pre and post intervention, percentage of hospitalist based patients of overall rapid responses pre and post intervention, percentage of hospitalists using acuity scores, and average and mean severity score of patients with rapid responses compared with those admitted.
Patients have a risk of loss of confidentiality.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
4344
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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North Carolina
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Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27704
- Durham Regional Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients age >18 years
- admitted to the non-resident hospital medicine general medicine service at Durham Regional Hospital (DRH). (This would include transfers from outside hospital, the Emergency Room, intensive care units, and the Durham Rehab Institute.)
- Additionally, hospital medicine faculty who round on the non-resident general medicine service at DRH will be included for the purposes of completion of perception surveys.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients presenting for consults, rapid responses handled by surgical services and rapid responses as reason for transfer from Durham Rehabilitation Institute.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
- Allocation: NA
- Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
- Masking: NONE
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Comparison of RRT's and unplanned transfers pre and post intervention matching aggregate numbers month to month
Time Frame: End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Physician attitudes towards sign-out process pre and post intervention
Time Frame: End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Compliance rate monthly with sign-out sheet completion; will use simple descriptive statistics
Time Frame: End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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End of Study, Approximately 6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
January 1, 2014
Study Completion (ACTUAL)
January 1, 2014
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
May 14, 2013
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
May 15, 2013
First Posted (ESTIMATE)
May 16, 2013
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)
November 25, 2016
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
November 23, 2016
Last Verified
April 1, 2014
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- Pro00044212
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