Partners at Care Transitions (PACT): Improving patient experience and safety at transitions of care - Assessing the feasibility of using the PACT intervention to improve safety and experience of the transition process in a randomised controlled trial setting.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust0 个研究点目标入组 228 人开始时间: 2019年7月16日最近更新: 2022年10月17日

适应症

试验速览

2020 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32905158/ protocol (added 11/09/2020) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36183129/ (added 03/10/2022)

•1. Aged 75 and over
•2. Community-dwelling at the time of admission and anticipated to be discharged to their own home or that of a relative (this can include a period of rehabilitation after hospital discharge)
•3. Staying for at least one night on a participating ward
•4. Ability to read and understand English
•5. Willing and able to give informed consent (or personal consultee if lacking in mental capacity)
•For patients who lack capacity, eligible consultee/proxys (e.g. carers) will fulfil the following criteria:
•1. A primary carer for the patient
•2. Provides informal care to the patient (i.e. not paid / professional)
•3. Willing to act as a consultee for the patient and/or willing and able to give informed consent to act as the patient’s proxy throughout the study.
•4. Ability to read and understand English

•1. Out of area patients and/or patients who are to be transferred to another hospital
•2. Admitted for psychiatric reasons (other than dementia/delirium)
•3. Nursing/residential home resident or planning to be discharged to a nursing / residential home on a permanent basis
•4. Less than one overnight stay (on the participating ward) at time of recruitment
•5. Identified as being at the end of their life/subject to fast-track discharge to palliative care
•6. Unable to read and understand English
•7. Unable to give informed consent and where a suitable personal consultee cannot be identified, or if no one is prepared to act as a consultee for the patient

发起方