Reminder implementation for safety in child care

• Register: ISRCTN
• Last refreshed on: 5 January 2021
• Main ID: ISRCTN44819426
• Date of registration: 23/06/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: School of Education, Health and Social Studies
• Public title: Reminder implementation for safety in child care
• Scientific title: Reminder implementation for safety in child care - a cluster randomized controlled trial in paediatric care
• Date of first enrolment: 01/10/2009
• Target sample size: 2426
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN44819426
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: A single centre cluster randomized controlled study (Other)
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Sweden

Contacts

• Name: Anna Ehrenberg

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:
12 paediatric hospital wards, including neonatal and paediatric patients, with the same electronic patient record system.

1. Hospitalised Children, age 0 - 18 years, with peripheral venous catheters:
1.1. Inserted and documented in a template for peripheral venous catheters at baseline and after the intervention.
1.2. Only one peripheral venous catheter per patient was included.
Registered nurses at the 12 peadiatric wards:
1.3. Who had worked at one of the 12 wards at the time for data-collection.

Exclusion criteria:
Peripheral venous catheters were excluded that:
1. Lacked complete recording of reasons for removal.

Registered nurses were excluded who during the data-collection periods:
1. Had only adminstrative duties
2. Were on parental leave
3. Sick leave,
4. Doing full time studies


Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

The study focus is on complications related to pheripheral venous catheters that are used for adminstration of medications and fluids in patients.
Circulatory System

Intervention(s)

1. Intervention arm: Reminders based on recommendations from clinical practice guidelines for peripheral venous catheters, integrated in the electronic patient record.
2. Control arm: Clinical practice guidelines available on the Intranet, following normal procedure for dissemination of guidelines.

Primary Outcome(s)

Recorded occurrence of peripheral venous catheter-related complications at removal.

Secondary Outcome(s)

Registered nurses self-reported adherence to the clinical practice guideline recommendations for managing peripheral venous catheters.

Secondary ID(s)

Nil known

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Health Care Sciences Postgraduate School, Karolinska Institutet, Högskolan Dalarna

Ethics review

Status:
Approval date:
Contact:

Regional Ethics Review Board in Uppsala, Sweden, 06/04/2009 and 01/12/2010, refs: 2008/107 and 2008/360

Results

• Results available: Yes
• Date Completed: 30/09/2011