NCT03321578

Hospital Onset Diarrhoea Investigation

National Infection Trainees Collaborative for Audit and Research (NITCAR) Service Evaluation: The Prevalence, Aetiology and Management of Hospital-onset Diarrhoea on Medical, Surgical and Elderly Care Wards in the NHS

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 230 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This service evaulation aims to investigate how common diarrhoea is in hospital patients on medical, surgical and elderly care wards, what it is due to and how it is managed.

Detailed description

Latest National Health Service (NHS) England guidelines for the assessment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) cases recommend that acute hospitals collect data on the prevalence of hospital-onset diarrhoea in their organisations, and how it is managed, including if patients are appropriately tested for CDI. The aims of this multi-centre service evaluation are therefore to: * Determine the prevalence of hospital-onset diarrhoea on adult medical, surgical and care of the elderly wards in the NHS * Investigate how hospital-onset diarrhoea is managed, including whether patients are tested for CDI according to Department of Health (DoH) England standards * Investigate the aetiology of hospital-onset diarrhoea on adult medical, surgical and care of the elderly wards in the NHS, based on previously described causes Data will be collected at participating centres on two days, one between 11-15/Jan/2016 and one between 6-10/Jun/2016. Hospitals will be able to choose locally which two days. On those days investigators from the local Microbiology and/or Infection Prevention teams will screen all patients on pre-identified wards, who have been admitted for ≥72 hours, for hospital-onset diarrhoea. For all patients that meet the definition of hospital-onset diarrhoea their medical notes and charts will be reviewed, to ascertain potential causes and how they have been managed. This service evaluation should help participating hospitals to investigate hospital-onset diarrhoea in their own institutions, as well as generating a dataset that is representative of the problem across the NHS, and therefore of use to other centres.

Conditions

• Diarrhea

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2017-10-25
• Last updated: 2017-10-25

Locations

24 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom