Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

Completed

• Conditions: Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

• Registration Number: NCT01973959
• Lead Sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke

Brief Summary

Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This includes the perioperative phase in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems with incomplete information transfer may have a negative impact on patient safety and can lead to patient harm. The objective of this study is to analyse information transfer during postoperative handovers in the PACU.

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

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-10
• Primary Completion: 2011-12
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Status Verified: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-10-25
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-01
• Last Update Posted: 2013-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 790

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

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Exclusion Criteria

• Age < 18 years
• patients who have surgery under local anaesthesia or in standby
• patients who are transferred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) after surgery

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU	Two months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Krankenhaus Köln-Merheim, Departement of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine; 🇩🇪 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany