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Optimal Patient Turning for Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers

NCT02533726 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1312

Last updated 2018-04-09

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether optimal patient turning, strictly every 2 hours with at least 15 minutes of tissue decompression, reduces the occurrence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers.

Conditions

  • Pressure Ulcer

Interventions

OTHER

Optimal Turning

Patients within this arm will receive optimal turning practices. Nurses caring for these patients will receive real-time quantitative measures of patient turning procedures from the User Dashboard and provide a visual advisory to the nurse for the time to next turn.

OTHER

Standard Care Practices

Patients within this arm will receive standard preventative care practices - that is, nurses will provide standard care as necessary, without the aid of visual advisories from a patient sensor.

OTHER

Patient Sensor

A small sensor with adhesive backing is applied to the upper chest (midline) of the patient. Sensor tracks and records body movement and position, and displays this on a User Dashboard located on a computer at the bedside.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • David Pickham, PhD · Stanford Health Care

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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