Drawing the Line Between Medium Care and Intensive Care. A Prospective Observational Study Based on the Nursing Activities Score
The aim of the study is to develop a screening instrument, based on the nursing activities score, by which we can distinguish medium care patients from the intensive care patients in terms of nurse staffing.
The main study question is: What is the most discriminative NAS cut off for medium care patient?
Each nursing shift the NAS and TISS 28 scores will be calculated for each patient who is admitted to the 8 participating units.
Nurses will be asked to answer 3 questions (see detailed description here under)at the end of their working shift concerning each patient appointed to them.
Each morning medical staff and head nurses will be asked 2 questions (see detailed description here under) for concerning patient admitted to there ward.
In order to determine the NAS cut off for medium care patient, all morning questionnaire scores will be compared to the NAS an TISS28 scores of that same morning.
Secondary study questions are:
- Can NAS score based on one nursing shift predict the severity of care in the subsequent nursing shift?
- Is there a difference in appreciation of severity of care between nurses, head nurses and medical staff?
- Which variables influence the perception of severity of care?
- How does NAS relate to TISS28, APACHE and NEMS?
Descripción general del estudio
Estado
Condiciones
Descripción detallada
Nursing questionnaire:
How many beds were appointed to you?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
For how many of such patients you could care for maximally?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- >4
This patients' burden of care corresponds to:
- An intensive care patient who requires more than standard intensive care
- An intensive care patient who requires standard intensive care
- A medium care patient
medical staff and head nurse questionaire:
For how many of such patients you could care for maximally?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- >4
This patients' burden of care corresponds to?
- An intensive care patient who requires more than standard intensive care
- An intensive care patient who requires standard intensive care
- A medium care patient
Tipo de estudio
Inscripción (Anticipado)
Criterios de participación
Criterio de elegibilidad
Edades elegibles para estudiar
- Niño
- Adulto
- Adulto Mayor
Acepta Voluntarios Saludables
Géneros elegibles para el estudio
Método de muestreo
Población de estudio
Descripción
Inclusion Criteria:
- admission to one of the 9 critical area's
Plan de estudios
¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?
Detalles de diseño
- Modelos observacionales: Grupo
- Perspectivas temporales: Futuro
Cohortes e Intervenciones
Grupo / Cohorte |
|---|
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Acute patients
Patients admitted to the surgical and general ICU (including burn unit), to the coronary care unit, to the emergency department high care zone, to the medical ICU, to the medical medium care unit
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
Medida de resultado |
Periodo de tiempo |
|---|---|
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most discriminative NAS cut off for identifying medium care patient versus intensive care patient
Periodo de tiempo: 1 year
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1 year
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Patrocinador
Investigadores
- Director de estudio: Greet Van den Berghe, MD PhD, Catholic University Leuven
- Investigador principal: Karen Decock, RS, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Fechas de registro del estudio
Fechas importantes del estudio
Inicio del estudio
Finalización primaria (Actual)
Finalización del estudio (Actual)
Fechas de registro del estudio
Enviado por primera vez
Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
Publicado por primera vez (Estimar)
Actualizaciones de registros de estudio
Última actualización publicada (Estimar)
Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
Última verificación
Más información
Términos relacionados con este estudio
Términos MeSH relevantes adicionales
Otros números de identificación del estudio
- NAS-ICU-2012
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