NCT02533726

Optimal Patient Turning for Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers

Randomized Control Trial Evaluating Optimal Patient Turning Procedures for Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,312 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether optimal patient turning, strictly every 2 hours with at least 15 minutes of tissue decompression, reduces the occurrence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers.

Detailed description

This single site, open label, two arm randomized control trial aims to evaluate whether optimal patient turning, strictly every 2 hours with at least 15 minutes of tissue decompression, reduces the occurrence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers. Optimal turning procedures will be obtained with the use of a patient monitoring system (Leaf Healthcare, Inc.) and compared to standard preventative care practices. Sensors were placed on all participants as they were admitted to ICU. A nurse's user dashboard was turned on for participants in the Optimal Turning Group, but was not turned on for participants in the Standard Care group.

Conditions

• Pressure Ulcer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Optimal Turning	Patients within this arm will receive optimal turning practices. Nurses caring for these patients will receive real-time quantitative measures of patient turning procedures from the User Dashboard and provide a visual advisory to the nurse for the time to next turn.
OTHER	Standard Care Practices	Patients within this arm will receive standard preventative care practices - that is, nurses will provide standard care as necessary, without the aid of visual advisories from a patient sensor.
OTHER	Patient Sensor	A small sensor with adhesive backing is applied to the upper chest (midline) of the patient. Sensor tracks and records body movement and position, and displays this on a User Dashboard located on a computer at the bedside.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-02-01
• Completion: 2016-02-01
• First posted: 2015-08-27
• Last updated: 2018-04-09
• Results posted: 2018-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States