Generic Health Relevance: Age and ageing Signs and Symptoms
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention is a delirium prevention system of care ? the Prevention of Delirium (POD) Programme. The POD Programme is a ward-based, quality improvement programme which will be embedded in usual
Sponsors
Bradford Institute for Health Research (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Hospital staff and volunteers: 1. Introductory workshop and associated follow-up interviews Workshop participants will include patient and carer representatives, hospital managers, clinical and voluntary service managers, volunteers, senior clinicians, nurses and therapists. We will arrange individual followup interviews with purposefully selected staff. 2. Delirium Prevention System of Care Implementation Teams Team members will consist of staff having a potential interest/role in the delirium prevention system of care, e.g. senior manager, senior doctor, matron, nurse consultant and/or specialist nurse, staff nurse, therapist, manager of the volunteer service, volunteer, patient representative, care assistant and ward clerk or housekeeper. 3. Audit of the impact of the intervention on staff workload All members of the participating ward team and volunteers involved in the delirium prevention intervention present on the participating wards during the audit which will occur over six shifts on each participating ward. 4. Acceptability to staff and volunteers Interviews and focus groups with a sample of service managers, staff and volunteers from participating wards. Patients and carers: 1. Patient satisfaction questionnaire Consecutive patients about to be discharged from the participating wards at the start of the implementation phase and during the delivery phase of the intervention. 2. Patient description All patients admitted to the participating wards over the six months of the delivery of the delirium prevention system of care intervention. 3. Audit of the impact of the intervention on staff workload Patients present on the ward at the time of the audit which will occur over six shifts on each participating ward. 4. Acceptability to patients and carers Interviews with a purposeful sample of patients discharged from participating wards and their carers with differing, positive and negative perceptions of care experiences identified through the satisfaction questionnaire 5. Male and femal participants 6. Aged 65 years and over
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients in a terminal phase of their illness 2. Does not meet inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| We will undertake a before and after study in each of the case study sites. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| No secondary outcome measures | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed