Feasibility, Appropriateness, Meaningfulness and Effectiveness of Bedside Shift Reporting

NCT ID: NCT02714582

Last Updated: 2021-06-16

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

750 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-03-31

Study Completion Date

2018-05-31

Brief Summary

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Hospitals face the challenge to continually improve their quality of care. In order to achieve this goal, they have to focus on both improving clinical practice and increasing the involvement of patients in the healthcare process. Both factors are equally important to quality of care. The World Health Organization highlights the role that patients and their family could play in the improvement of healthcare. Active patient participation reduces communication errors, increases patient empowerment and is associated with positive health and psychosocial outcomes. A possible strategy to improve patient participation through communication can be bedside shift report (BSR).

Bedside shift report is a process where shift-to-shift report between nurses is, if approved by the patient, executed at the patient's bedside in order to improve the patient's involvement. Bedside shift report has the potential to result in more patient satisfaction, better clinical outcomes, improvement of health education and enhanced team coherence. Preliminary research indicates that BSR decreases safety incidents and adverse events and readmissions, positively influences staff satisfaction, offers beneficial financial effects by reducing nurses' overtime, and allows direct patient care to start earlier.

Despite of these effects, rigorous and large-scale scientific research on this topic is lacking. Currently, the available evidence is scarce and mostly consists of single case or small-scale studies. Longitudinal results on effectiveness and sustainability of BSR are also unknown or inconclusive. There is a need for an increased number of controlled studies to evaluate the impact of BSR on patient, staff and economic outcomes and its longitudinal results.

The aim of this study is four-folded:

1. The development and fine-tuning of a BSR-intervention and implementation protocol by using diagnostic interviews, co-design, and pilot studies.
2. A quantitative evaluation of BSR in comparison with care as usual on patient-related, clinical, and nurse-related outcomes.
3. A qualitative evaluation of the feasibility, appropriateness and meaningfulness of BSR as a method to improve communication and patient participation with a particular interest in the experience of benefits and disadvantages by healthcare professionals and patients.
4. A process evaluation of BSR to determine the intervention fidelity and to assess the evolution of BSR over the period of the study (e.g. adaptations, consistent practice).

The study design was based on the Medical Research Council-framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions. Power calculation indicates a minimum of 5 experimental wards with 35 patients should be included in the study. The hospital, the specialization of the ward and the nurse-patient ratio will be used for the matched controlled assignment.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Nursing Bedside Shift Report Patient Participation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Bedside shift report

The experimental group (nurses and patients) will:

* develop a tailored BSR-intervention by use of co-design, diagnostic interviews, and pilot testing
* use the tailored BSR-intervention, with participation of the patient, instead of the regular nurse shift report

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Bedside shift report

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Bedside shift report is a process where shift-to-shift report between nurses is, if approved by the patient, executed at the patient's bedside in order to improve the patient's involvement (Anderson \& Mangino 2006).

No bedside shift report

The control group will not use bedside shift report, but will use the regular nurse shift report without participation of the patient

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Bedside shift report

Bedside shift report is a process where shift-to-shift report between nurses is, if approved by the patient, executed at the patient's bedside in order to improve the patient's involvement (Anderson \& Mangino 2006).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Bedside shift handover

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Admitted on a participating hospital ward
* Be conscious
* Speak Dutch
* Participated in at least 3 bedside shift reports


* Work on a participating hospital ward
* Have at least six months of experience on the ward
* Have participated in 10 bedside shift reports or more

Exclusion Criteria

* Dementia or other severe cognitive/mental disorders

Nurses


* No hands-on patient contact
* Internship
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Ghent

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Ghent

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ann Van Hecke, MSc, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ghent University/Ghent University Hospital

Kristof Eeckloo, LMM, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ghent University/Ghent University Hospital

Wim Van Biesen, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ghent University/Ghent University Hospital

Locations

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AZ Sint-Jan

Bruges, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Alma

Eeklo, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Sint-Lucas

Ghent, , Belgium

Site Status

Ghent University Hospital

Ghent, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Virge Jessa

Hasselt, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Groeninge

Kortrijk, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Lokeren

Lokeren, , Belgium

Site Status

AZ Oudenaarde

Oudenaarde, , Belgium

Site Status

Countries

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Belgium

References

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Anderson CD, Mangino RR. Nurse shift report: who says you can't talk in front of the patient? Nurs Adm Q. 2006 Apr-Jun;30(2):112-22. doi: 10.1097/00006216-200604000-00008.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16648723 (View on PubMed)

Cairns LL, Dudjak LA, Hoffmann RL, Lorenz HL. Utilizing bedside shift report to improve the effectiveness of shift handoff. J Nurs Adm. 2013 Mar;43(3):160-5. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e318283dc02.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23425914 (View on PubMed)

Evans D, Grunawalt J, McClish D, Wood W, Friese CR. Bedside shift-to-shift nursing report: implementation and outcomes. Medsurg Nurs. 2012 Sep-Oct;21(5):281-4, 292.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23243785 (View on PubMed)

Gonzalo JD, Wolpaw DR, Lehman E, Chuang CH. Patient-centered interprofessional collaborative care: factors associated with bedside interprofessional rounds. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Jul;29(7):1040-7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2817-x. Epub 2014 Mar 11.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24615186 (View on PubMed)

Gregory S, Tan D, Tilrico M, Edwardson N, Gamm L. Bedside shift reports: what does the evidence say? J Nurs Adm. 2014 Oct;44(10):541-5. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000115.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25208269 (View on PubMed)

Griffin SJ, Kinmonth AL, Veltman MW, Gillard S, Grant J, Stewart M. Effect on health-related outcomes of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners: a systematic review of trials. Ann Fam Med. 2004 Nov-Dec;2(6):595-608. doi: 10.1370/afm.142.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15576546 (View on PubMed)

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2001. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222274/

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25057539 (View on PubMed)

Longtin Y, Sax H, Leape LL, Sheridan SE, Donaldson L, Pittet D. Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010 Jan;85(1):53-62. doi: 10.4065/mcp.2009.0248.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20042562 (View on PubMed)

Craig P, Dieppe P, Macintyre S, Michie S, Nazareth I, Petticrew M. Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013 May;50(5):587-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.09.010. Epub 2012 Nov 15. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23159157 (View on PubMed)

Smeulers M, Lucas C, Vermeulen H. Effectiveness of different nursing handover styles for ensuring continuity of information in hospitalised patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Jun 24;2014(6):CD009979. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009979.pub2.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24957503 (View on PubMed)

Wakefield DS, Ragan R, Brandt J, Tregnago M. Making the transition to nursing bedside shift reports. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012 Jun;38(6):243-53. doi: 10.1016/s1553-7250(12)38031-8.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22737775 (View on PubMed)

Malfait S, Eeckloo K, Van Opdorp L, Van Biesen W, Van Hecke A. The impact of bedside handovers on relevant clinical indicators: A matched-controlled multicentre longitudinal study. J Adv Nurs. 2020 Aug;76(8):2104-2112. doi: 10.1111/jan.14406. Epub 2020 May 25.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32347554 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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B670201627044

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

HA/RP/2015/086/EC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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