NCT04257422

Intentional Rounding in Internal Medicine

Intentional Rounding in Internal Medicine: a Multicenter, Randomized National Study Studio INTENTO - FADOI.03.2018

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,822 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fadoi Foundation, Italy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Each investigator will have to collect data for 50 hospitalized patients in the Internal Medicine wards. If the center is randomized to Intentional Rounding, the staff of nurses and OSS will have to implement the new care strategy.

Detailed description

The centers participating in the study are randomized to the Intentional Roundig group and the Control group, in a 1: 1 ratio. In the randomized centers for experimental intervention, a training intervention lasting about 4 hours was conducted by a nurse expert in Intentional Rounding. At the end of the study, training is also scheduled for the Control Centers.

Conditions

• Hospitalization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intentional Rounding	A new method of nursing care named Intentional Rounding. The "intentional roundings" are planned rounds, conducted at regular intervals by nursing staff to anticipate care, comfort, hospitality and psychological needs of hospitalized users.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-21
• Primary completion: 2020-03-29
• Completion: 2020-03-29
• First posted: 2020-02-06
• Last updated: 2024-02-28

Locations

23 sites across 1 country: Italy