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NCT Number: NCT01973959

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Krankenhaus Köln-Merheim, Departement of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, 51109, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU

    Time frame: Two months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Witten/Herdecke

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Nov 1, 2013
Registry last updated
Nov 1, 2013

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