Predictors of Readmission in Patients Undergoing PNL

NCT ID: NCT05852483

Last Updated: 2025-07-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 161 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-12-01

Brief Summary

To identify predictors of patients postoperative readmission after PNL

Detailed Description

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a minimally-invasive procedure to remove stones from the kidney by a small puncture wound (up to about 1 cm) through the skin. It is usually done under general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia. Despite the advancements in endoscopic technologies technique and training, the procedure is still associated with complications, which can occur during the intervention or in the early or late postoperative period. Known complications to PCNL are fever (2.8-32.1%), bleeding requiring transfusion (0- 45%), organ injury (0-1.7%) and sepsis (0.3-1.5%) these complications consider life threatening and increase risk of patient readmission Readmission is defined as a state when the patient is admitted to the same or a different hospital after being discharged from the applicable hospital to a non-acute setting, such as his home within a specified time period . Hospital readmissions are frequent and costly, and are estimated to cost the US health care system > $12-17 billion annually . Readmissions occurring within the first week after discharge are often related to the stress of acute illness as well as heightened self-care needs, new medications, and impaired function while those occurring later reflect chronic illness Nurses could play a pivotal role in preventing readmissions through appropriate discharge teaching and following up with the patients after discharge through telephone conversations. Early identification of patients' problems and taking appropriate measures to handle these problems at an early stage helps to prevent further post-discharge complications and improves patient outcomes.

Nurse should emphasize to the patient the importance of reporting symptoms to physician immediately. Postoperative care should include: close monitoring of vital signs, close observation of urine output and color changes, wound care and careful observation for dressing and tube drainage.

Many studies have been found in the literature on readmissions after urological surgeries and their causes in recent years . These studies include general urological surgical procedures, and there are limited studies examining potential predictive factors for endourology and stone surgery

Conditions

Kidney Stone

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult male and female patients
• patients shechedled for PNL
• age range from)18-65(years

Exclusion Criteria

• Failed PNL
• psychiatric patients
• coagulopathy
• patients refused to participate in the study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Hazem Tarraf Abo Dief

principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

faculty of nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

Asyut, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

References

Sharma K, Sankhwar SN, Goel A, Singh V, Sharma P, Garg Y. Factors predicting infectious complications following percutaneous nephrolithotomy. Urol Ann. 2016 Oct-Dec;8(4):434-438. doi: 10.4103/0974-7796.192105.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 28057987 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

http://uroweb.org/guideline/urolithiasis

Members of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines Office. Guidelines on urolithiasis. 2019

Other Identifiers

Post PNL readmission

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id