Drug Wastage : Observational Study in Intensive Care Units in France (GAME-OVER)

Intermunicipal Hospital Center Toulon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drug Use

Treatments: Other: Quantification of IV drugs wastage

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05553054

2022-CHITS-009

Details and patient eligibility

About

Environmental awareness leads medical field to question its responsibility and possibilities for action.

Drug residues can have a major environmental impact as per their bioaccumulation, toxicity and persistence characteristics, depending on where they are discarded. In France, drug residues should be disposed of by incineration, but in practice, this is not systematic. Moreover, data on drug wastage in Intensive Care Units (ICU) are rare.

GAME-OVER observational study aims to evaluate drug wastage in ICU in France and to suggest ways to improve health care practices.

Full description

Observational study with data collection during a 24-hour business day. Data collected refer to healthcare team's practices and patients.

Collection starts when day shift starts (at 7:00 am) and ends when night shift leaves (at 7:00 am the following day).

Enrollment: 1,066 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients hospitalized in intensive care units during the 24 hours of data collection.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient's opposition to participate in the study or patient family opposition if the patient is not able to be informed.

Trial design

1,066 participants in 1 patient group

Intravenous (IV) drugs

Description:

Patient and prepared/administrated/discarded IV drugs data will be collected during 24 hours.

Treatment:

Other: Quantification of IV drugs wastage