Status:
COMPLETED
Hospital Onset Diarrhoea Investigation
Lead Sponsor:
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Collaborating Sponsors:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Conditions:
Diarrhea
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Brief Summary
This service evaulation aims to investigate how common diarrhoea is in hospital patients on medical, surgical and elderly care wards, what it is due to and how it is managed.
Detailed Description
Latest National Health Service (NHS) England guidelines for the assessment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) cases recommend that acute hospitals collect data on the prevalence of hospital-onse...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Admitted to hospital for ≥72 hours at the time of data collection for the service evaluation
- Presence of hospital-onset diarrhoea (defined as ≥ 2 episodes of unformed stools (Bristol Stool Chart type 5-7) during the day before the service evaluation, with the onset of the diarrhoea being more than 48 hours after admission to hospital)
Exclusion
- Patients admitted to the ward for ≤72hour at the time of data collection for the service evaluation
- Patients with diarrhoea since admission or in whom it developed within the first 48 hours of admission
- Patients receiving end of life care
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2016
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
230 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03321578
Start Date
January 1 2016
End Date
August 1 2016
Last Update
October 25 2017
Active Locations (24)
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1
Antrim Area Hospital (Northern Health and Social Care Trust)
Antrim, United Kingdom
2
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Barnsley, United Kingdom
3
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Blackburn, United Kingdom
4
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge, United Kingdom