A feasibility study of the effect of proactive diabetes specialist nurse reviews of patients with diabetes in hospital
- Conditions
- DiabetesNutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN70402110
- Brief Summary
2024 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38863071/ (added 19/06/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 287
The main trial will recruit both wards (clusters) and patients:
1. Wards: General adult medical and surgical wards are eligible. The specialist diabetes wards, day-case units, maternity wards and paediatric areas (age <16 years) are excluded.
2. Patients: Adult patients with a diagnosis of diabetes documented on their problem list admitted to one of the included wards will be eligible. Inpatients already under the care of the specialist diabetes team in hospital will be excluded.
The process evaluation will include both a sub-sample of patients from the trial and health care professionals:
1. Patients: All patients with diabetes admitted to an included ward and taking part in the trial will be eligible.
2. Healthcare professionals: Nurses and Doctors that are permanent members of staff on an included ward will be eligible, along with all members of the diabetes inpatient specialist nurse team responsible for delivering the proactive diabetes review model (intervention). As key stakeholders, divisional leads with service development, budget assignment and strategic decision-making responsibilities will also be eligible and known as managers for the purpose of this protocol.
1. Inpatients already under the care of the specialist diabetes team in the hospital
2. <16 years old
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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