NCT02850952

Rehab MATRIX: Impact of a Nursing-Led Acuity Algorithm on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine whether implementation of Rehab MATRIX will improve patient safety, patient satisfaction and nursing indices.

Detailed description

The provision of efficient and conscientious nursing care is at the forefront of health care quality. Unfortunately, a lack of objectivity in the assignment of patients to nurses can lead to inequalities of care. Such inequalities translate to poor patient outcomes and diminished patient satisfaction. Furthermore, staff attrition related to nursing fatigue increases the cost of care due to a reliance on supplemental nurses. Rehab MATRIX is a patient assignment tool that objectively categorizes patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation based on nurse identified acuity variables.

Conditions

• Nurse's Role
• Nurse-Patient Relations
• Satisfaction
• Patient Fall

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Rehab MATRIX	Rehab MATRIX is a patient assignment tool that objectively categorizes patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation based on nurse identified acuity variables.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2016-08-01
• Last updated: 2020-08-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States