Quality of Handover to a Post Anaesthesia Care Unit in a Children's Hospital

April 12, 2014 updated by: Florian Piekarski, University of Witten/Herdecke

Postoperative handovers to the post anaesthesia care unit (PACU) in adult anaesthesia are described as incomplete and unstructured, although their relevance for the patient safety is well known. It must be assumed that for children, this handover is at least comparable important.

With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

441

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

No older than 17 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

The study population consists of patients (<18 years of age) at Children's Hospital Cologne, being admitted to the main postoperative care unit (PACU), after they underwent interventions within normal surgery hours

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

Age > 18 years

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

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU Time Frame: Three month	Three month

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Witten/Herdecke

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Piekarski F, Kaufmann J, Laschat M, Bohmer A, Engelhardt T, Wappler F. Quality of handover in a pediatric postanesthesia care unit. Paediatr Anaesth. 2015 Jul;25(7):746-52. doi: 10.1111/pan.12646. Epub 2015 Apr 2.

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

Study Start

November 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2013

Study Completion (Actual)