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Care Delivery in Acute Hospital Settings: an Observational Study

NCT02212353 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2017-08-11

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Summary

This small observational study is a contractual component of a 5-year (2013-18) NIHR funded programme called PERFECTED (Peri-operative Enhanced Recovery hip FracturE Care of paTiEnts with Dementia) whose overall aim is to develop and pilot an evidence-based intervention to improve the hospital care of patients with dementia suffering a fractured hip. The findings from this particular observational study will support other PERFECTED work-packages in establishing current care practices in acute hospital settings for older people in general with hip fractures.

Observation is a well-established qualitative technique widely used to understand cultures, processes and interactions in defined locations including hospitals. In this study, researchers will observe day-to-day practices on specific ortho-geriatric wards and Emergency Departments in three English hospitals (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Bradford Royal Infirmary and Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham). Observations will occur intermittently over a 4-week period, covering the full 24h cycle. The prime objective of the study is to describe delivery of care to older patients with a hip fracture including an assessment of cost consequences. Crucially, the observations will focus exclusively upon the hospital personnel that routinely provide care in the designated locations being observed. Other individuals who frequent the locations (patients, visitors and other more peripheral health care professionals) are NOT the focus of the research and will be regarded as "incidental others" rather than "participants". This approach is common in observational research.

Observations will be conducted by experienced qualitative researchers and assisted by specifically trained lay researchers to provide a valuable service-user dimension to the study. Field-notes and contextual information will be collected and thematically analysed, again in partnership with trained 'lay' researchers. Resulting data will address the pre-defined aims of the observational study and feed into the findings reported across the whole of work package 1 of PERFECTED.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Observational study, not interventional

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of East Anglia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • George C Fox · University of East Anglia

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-01
Primary Completion
2014-12-12
Completion
2014-12-16

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