Pilot implementation of a delirium prevention system of care

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Generic Health Relevance: Age and ageing; Signs and Symptoms

• Registration Number: ISRCTN65924234
• Lead Sponsor: Bradford Institute for Health Research (UK)

Brief Summary

2013 Results article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24004917 results 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33819001/ (added 28/10/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2012-06-29
• Study Completion: 2012-11-30
• Last Update Posted: 7 November 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

Hospital staff and volunteers:
1. Introductory workshop and associated follow-up interviews
Workshop participants will include patient and carer representatives, hospital managers, clinical and voluntary service managers, volunteers, senior clinicians, nurses and therapists. We will arrange individual followup interviews with purposefully selected staff.
2. Delirium Prevention System of Care Implementation Teams
Team members will consist of staff having a potential interest/role in the delirium prevention system of care, e.g. senior manager, senior doctor, matron, nurse consultant and/or specialist nurse, staff nurse, therapist, manager of the volunteer service, volunteer, patient representative, care assistant and ward clerk or housekeeper.
3. Audit of the impact of the intervention on staff workload
All members of the participating ward team and volunteers involved in the delirium prevention intervention present on the participating wards during the audit which will occur over six shifts on each participating ward.
4. Acceptability to staff and volunteers
Interviews and focus groups with a sample of service managers, staff and volunteers from participating wards.

Patients and carers:
1. Patient satisfaction questionnaire
Consecutive patients about to be discharged from the participating wards at the start of the implementation phase and during the delivery phase of the intervention.
2. Patient description
All patients admitted to the participating wards over the six months of the delivery of the delirium prevention system of care intervention.
3. Audit of the impact of the intervention on staff workload
Patients present on the ward at the time of the audit which will occur over six shifts on each participating ward.
4. Acceptability to patients and carers
Interviews with a purposeful sample of patients discharged from participating wards and their carers with differing, positive and negative perceptions of care experiences identified through the satisfaction questionnaire
5. Male and femal participants
6. Aged 65 years and over

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients in a terminal phase of their illness
2. Does not meet inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified