IDEA: Improved Discharge Experience for All Project. Investigating the effect of a bundle of educational, process change and cultural interventions to optimise the paediatric hospital discharge summary processes.
Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
- Conditions
- Hospital admission and discharges (for any condition)Other - Research that is not of generic health relevance and not applicable to specific health categories listed above
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622001466730
- Lead Sponsor
- Queensland Children's Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1176
Inclusion Criteria
All paediatric patients discharged from the department of paediatrics at the Queensland Children's Hospital
Exclusion Criteria
Patients discharged from units other than Paediatrics or shifted to other units so that the discharge occurred from another unit. Hospital in the home patients. Patients who had actively complaints. Patients who were discharged from the Emergency department itself and were discharged with a discharge letter from emergency department and did not require a electronic disharge summary.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Discharges finalized within 24 hours of hospital discharge by reviewing the hospital records[At 24 hours after discharge and at/by hospital discharge];Discharges finalised at or prior to discharge in the intervention and the control arms (as a composite outcome) using hospital records. [At time of hospital discharge];Proportion of patients in the intervention arm that were given discharge summaries at discharge using the data from the app. [At time of hospital discharge]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method