Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

Quality of Postoperative Patient Handover in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit: A Prospective Analysis

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01973959

Enrollment

790

Registered

2013-11-01

Start date

2011-10-31

Completion date

2011-12-31

Last updated

2013-11-01

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Conditions

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Brief summary

Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This includes the perioperative phase in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems with incomplete information transfer may have a negative impact on patient safety and can lead to patient harm. The objective of this study is to analyse information transfer during postoperative handovers in the PACU. With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

Exclusion criteria

* Age \< 18 years * patients who have surgery under local anaesthesia or in standby * patients who are transferred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) after surgery

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU	Two months

Countries

Germany

Outcome results