Multilayer Silicone Dressings as Compared with Standard Care for Prevention of Sacral Pressure Injuries in Community Cancer Patients: A Cluster Randomised Control Trial
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Pressure injuryCancerPalliative careSkin - Other skin conditionsCancer - Any cancer
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622000728730
- Lead Sponsor
- Silver Chain Group
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 378
Inclusion Criteria
•A primary diagnosis of a cancer
•Over 18 years of age
•Resource Utilisation Groups—Activities of Daily Living (RUG-ADL) score greater than or equal to 3
•Able to provide written consent
Exclusion Criteria
•The primary diagnosis is a non-malignant condition requiring palliative/hospice care
•Pre-existing Pressure Injury to the sacrum
•Sacral wounds of other aetiologies
•Declined or unable to provide written consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The incidence and severity of sacral pressure injuries as assessed the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel & National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel staging classification as a composite primary outcome.[ Monitored for development at each nursing visit. for 4 weeks or sooner should the patient: decease, develop an adverse event , transfer to a hospital-based or other service, or withdraw for any reason. ];Cost of using prophylactic multilayer silicone dressings as part of a prevention plan. Costing will include all wound treatment consumables and nursing time for visits and application of prophylactic dressings collected in the health organisations' electronic wound care record[Collected at each patient visit for 4 weeks or sooner should the patient: decease, develop a pressure injury or other adverse event , transfer to a hospital-based or other service, or withdraw for any reason. ]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method