Multimodal, clinical assessment of a system to reduce error during anaesthesia.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Drug administration error and failures in vigilance in anaesthesiaAnaesthesiology - Anaesthetics
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12608000068369
- Lead Sponsor
- Professor Alan Merry
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1000
Inclusion Criteria
All patients undergoing anaesthesia in designated operating rooms in Auckland City Hospital during the study period.
Exclusion Criteria
THose who do not wish to participate
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The composite of 1) rates of error related to iv drug administration; 2) failures in the accuracy and completeness of the anaesthetic iv drug records[The rates of drug administration errror will be assessed by obesrvaton and other techniques during each anaesthetic, over a period of up to 12 months in one or more designated operating rooms. Failures in the accuracy and completeness of anaesthetic records will be assessed weekly by reference to copies of the records.];Failures in the accuracy and completeness of anaesthetic records[Assessed after each anaesthetic];Lapses in vigilance tested with a vigilance<br>probe. To be reported as a co-primary outcome with outcome 1.[Lapses in vigilance will be assssed in real time using an automated vigilance probe during the study anaesthetics.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The difference between Maori and other groups of patients combined in the primary outcome variable[Ethnic data will be collected for all participating patients at the start of each anaesthetic];Rate of actual harm from error[At discharge from hospital];Evaluation of safety assessment code (SAC) for each error ? see below[At discharge from hospital];Quantitative and qualitative measures of workflow[Assessed in real time by observation during each anaesthetic];Legibility of records[Assessed at the end of each anaesthetic];Cost of procedures (in terms of money and time)[Calculated after each anaesthetic]