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RTLS Technology Study

NCT04114110 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2000

Last updated 2026-03-09

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Summary

This study will examine the productivity of the hospital workforce utilizing a unique dataset that is stored at the Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT). The data is recorded by a Real Time Location System (RTLS) that tracks the second-by-second physical location of patients, staff, and medical equipment. Using this data, the plan is to measure the amount of time that clinical staff spend with patients and with other clinical staff, and then explore how these measures of contact time influence patient health outcomes. The data will also be used to measure the location and movement of patients during their hospital stay, and test the impact of moving patients between wards on their health outcomes. In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, impact of COVID19 on patient contact time, patient outcomes and professional working practices will also be examined.

Conditions

  • Inpatients
  • Staff

Interventions

OTHER

RTLS data

data extraction from RTLS

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • La Trobe University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Cornell University

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-06
Primary Completion
2021-11-15
Completion
2021-11-15

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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