Status:
COMPLETED
Improved Patient Handoffs to Prevent Sentinel Events
Lead Sponsor:
Duke University
Conditions:
Health Care Quality
Access and Evaluation
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
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 c...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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
- Patients presenting for consults, rapid responses handled by surgical services and rapid responses as reason for transfer from Durham Rehabilitation Institute.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
4344 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01855646
End Date
January 1 2014
Last Update
November 25 2016
Active Locations (1)
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Durham Regional Hospital
Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27704