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Effect of an Integrated Care Pathway on Asthma Care in Hospital

NCT00345267 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2006-06-28

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Summary

Integrated care pathways (ICP) coalesce medical and nursing work practices, unifying and directing care in line with current best practice and guidelines. We wish to examine the introduction of an ICP for children with wheeze/asthma admitted to our hospital. We will determine whether more rigid, but guided care results in faster recovery, quicker discharge with better education and fewer prescribing errors, but also determine whether staff feel alienated by the rigidity of practice, and parents perceive any benefit to the changes introduced.This will be a cluster randomised trial (random weeks) of standard or ICP care in 180 patients admitted to Sick Kids with wheeze/asthma. Parents will be asked to complete a questionnaire on admission and contacted at 10-14 days post discharge and asked to recall education provided at discharge; no other patient or parent intervention will be required.It is expected to take 40 weeks to recruit 180 patients.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Integrated Care Pathway

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Roche Educational Grant

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Edinburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steve Cunningham, MD, PhD · University of Edinburgh

  • Robin Prescott, PhD, FRCP · University of Edinburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-08-31
Completion
2005-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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