Effectiveness of Catheter Reminder and Evaluation Program (CARE)

Siriraj Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: All Hospitalized Patients; With and Without Catheter

Treatments: Procedure: Catheter Reminder and Evaluation Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01797146

656/2555(EC1)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of Catheter Reminder and Evaluation program (CARE) in reducing the duration of catheter use and the number of infection relating to catheter use.

Enrollment: 874 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All hospitalized adults in 6 general medical wards at Siriraj Hospital
• With or Without catheter

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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874 participants in 2 patient groups

CARE

Active Comparator group

Description:

All patients in the intervention wards will receive the Catheter Reminder and Evaluation (CARE) intervention.

Treatment:

Procedure: Catheter Reminder and Evaluation Program

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

All patients in the control wards will receive usual care without the CARE intervention.