Preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting - a quality improvement project
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Postoperative nausea and vomitingSurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN45566845
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 7900
Inclusion Criteria
Adult patients scheduled for elective surgery
Exclusion Criteria
1. Pediatric cases
2. Cardiothoracic surgery
3. Patients who will be admitted to ICU postoperatively
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Percentage of patients with completely filled in preoperative PONV risk scores (Apfel PONV Simplified Risk Scoring System). The weekly change of the percentage of filled in PONV risk scores will be displayed as a run chart and slopes will be compared between the pre- and post-intervention period.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> The weekly change will be displayed as a run chart and slopes will be compared between the pre- and post-intervention period:<br> 1. Percentage of patients with complete adherence to pharmaceutical prophylaxis according to individual risk score<br> 2. Percentage of patients receiving therapeutic anti-emetics on POD 0 and POD 1<br> 3. Percentage of patients reporting clinically important PONV, measured by the PONV Intensity Scale<br>