Clinical Practice Guideline for Neonatal Extravasation Injury

United Christian Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Extravasation Injury

Treatments: Other: Clinical practice guideline for prevention and management of extravasation injury

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04321447

CPGneonatalextravasation

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline in the prevention and management of neonatal extravasation injury, and to examine the change in nurses' knowledge of and adherence to the guideline.

Full description

A study with controlled before-and-after design was conducted. The clinical practice guideline was developed and a multifaceted educational program was delivered for nurses. Neonatal outcomes were collected at baseline and after completion of the intervention. The changes in nurses' level of knowledge and adherence to the guideline were also measured.

Enrollment: 213 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 1 year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neonates who were admitted for intravenous medication or infusion therapy, and
• Neonates whose parents were equal to or over 18 years old and able to communicate in Chinese or English.

Exclusion criteria

• Neonates who were born with congenital dermatological problems such as ichthyosis and epidermolysis bullosa.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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213 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical practice guideline (CPG) group

Experimental group

Description:

Implementation of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline and delivery of an educational programme

Treatment:

Other: Clinical practice guideline for prevention and management of extravasation injury

Usual care group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care