Automated Documentation of Vital Parameters Using Mobile Stations and Activation of the Rapid Response Team

Hospital do Coracao

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inpatient Facililty Diagnoses

Treatments: Other: Control; Device: Hillrom

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04648579

HILLROM

Details and patient eligibility

About

The documentation of vital signs is traditionally performed manually when the patient is not admitted in intensive care units, which can lead to documentary errors, long time for data acquisition and, consequently, impairment in the early identification of possible clinical deterioration. In-bed technology solutions are available to automate the collection of vital data and transfer information to a medical record or central electronic monitoring and its role in the health value chain needs further investigation. The investigators propose to evaluate the impact of the Connex Spot Monitor solution Welch Allyn (CSM / Hillrom) in conjunction with the Hillrom Connecta solution in a real world situation, conducting a cluster randomized trilal in wards of a tertiary hospital. In addition, this study aims to estimate the clinical effectiveness of a technological solution that performs an analysis of vital signs and automatically activates the rapid response team (RRT) when the pre-defined criteria are met, comparing it with the traditional manual method. The primary outcome is the number of times that the RRT fires in a timely manner.

Enrollment: 231 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients with activated RRT during the study recruitment period.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who need blood pressure measurement in lower members.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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231 participants in 2 patient groups

Hillrom

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention involves an automated vital signs document system consisting of a mobile medical device for measuring vital signs (CSM / Hillrom) that collects and analyzes data acquired at the bedside to be sent to a remote data processing point (Digital Control Station), using Hillrom Connecta software.

Treatment:

Device: Hillrom

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hospital usual care.

Treatment:

Other: Control