Testing an early warning score (EWS) system for recognition of clinical deterioration: multi-site (multi-province) RCT
- Conditions
- Training
- Registration Number
- PACTR201412000936255
- Lead Sponsor
- CT Faculty of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Unit
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 102
Training programme: a) All nurses in full-time employment in the 3 intervention wards including those on night duty. Record review: b) Patient records for retrospective record review on discharge will include all patients 18 years of age and older who were admitted to the 3 intervention wards and the 3 control wards during the period of study.
Patients who are Not for Resuscitation, those who are transferred out of the ward to another department after 3 days and those whose clinical records are unavailable. Incomplete records (not having a vital signs chart and the Nursing Record/Progress Notes, or, in the intervention wards, the MEWS chart and SBAR where appropriate) and missing records will be counted but excluded for analysis as these reduce availability for sampling.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method urses reporting behaviour, that is, proportion of responses to early signs of clinical and physiological deterioration judged as appropriate, assessed by investigators using MEWS criteria (reference) from documentation in patients¿ records
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method