RTLS Technology Study

Completed

• Conditions: Staff; Inpatients
• Interventions: Other: RTLS data

• Registration Number: NCT04114110
• Lead Sponsor: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

Brief Summary

This study will examine the productivity of the hospital workforce utilizing a unique dataset that is stored at the Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT). The data is recorded by a Real Time Location System (RTLS) that tracks the second-by-second physical location of patients, staff, and medical equipment. Using this data, the plan is to measure the amount of time that clinical staff spend with patients and with other clinical staff, and then explore how these measures of contact time influence patient health outcomes. The data will also be used to measure the location and movement of patients during their hospital stay, and test the impact of moving patients between wards on their health outcomes. In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, impact of COVID19 on patient contact time, patient outcomes and professional working practices will also be examined.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-10-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-10-01
• Study First Posted: 2019-10-03
• Study Start: 2020-01-06
• Primary Completion: 2021-11-15
• Study Completion: 2021-11-15
• Status Verified: 2022-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-01-12
• Last Update Posted: 2022-01-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2000

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients admitted to inpatient departments at RWT and are present at RWT during the period of 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 inclusive.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients admitted to outpatient wards at RWT;
• Patients that were not admitted at or discharged from RWT between 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 inclusive.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Admitted inpatients	RTLS data	no intervention
Staff with RTLS badges	RTLS data	no intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Nurse sensitive indicators	3 years	Number of Falls, medication errors, pressure ulcers and Urinary Tract Infections
Length of stay	3 years	total amount of time in hospital
Number of in-hospital deaths (RWT specific)	30 days	in-hospital mortality figures
Number of readmissions (RWT specific)	30 days	readmission figures
Number of Adverse incidents affecting patient care	3 years	Number and description of Adverse incidents affecting patient care as recorded by the Datix information system (e.g. falls, medication errors)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; 🇬🇧 Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom