Status:

COMPLETED

Improved Patient Handoffs to Prevent Sentinel Events

Lead Sponsor:

Duke University

Conditions:

Health Care Quality

Access and Evaluation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The overall aim of this project is to improve the quality of the handoffs between hospitalists on the general medicine service at Durham Regional Hospital with the intent of improving transitions of c...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • patients age \>18 years
  • admitted to the non-resident hospital medicine general medicine service at Durham Regional Hospital (DRH). (This would include transfers from outside hospital, the Emergency Room, intensive care units, and the Durham Rehab Institute.)
  • Additionally, hospital medicine faculty who round on the non-resident general medicine service at DRH will be included for the purposes of completion of perception surveys.

Exclusion

  • Patients presenting for consults, rapid responses handled by surgical services and rapid responses as reason for transfer from Durham Rehabilitation Institute.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

4344 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01855646

End Date

January 1 2014

Last Update

November 25 2016

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Durham Regional Hospital

Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27704