Impact of an Infusion Therapy Nursing Expert Service on Length of Stay and Clinical Results of Venous Access Devices (ETI)

Basque Health Service

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patients With Prolonged Intravenous Therapy

Treatments: Other: Infusion therapy nursing expert service

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01548365

ITNE01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an infusion therapy nursing expert service is effective in decreasing hospital length of stay, improving the clinical results of venous access devices and increasing patient satisfaction with venous access.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Require an estimated long prescription of intravenous treatment. These treatments may be of fluid therapy, pharmacological, nutritional or hemotherapy.

  • Estimation of 7 days or more of continuous intravenous therapy.
  • Estimation of an intermittent intravenous therapy of less than a week, but on a monthly basis or less and a total estimated duration superior to 3 months.

• Be patient at Araba University Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• To have a central venous catheter indwelled
• MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)
• Younger than 18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

routine care for the selection, placement and maintenance of venous access devices (VAD).

Infusion Therapy Nursing Expert

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this group will receive the infusion therapy nursing expert (ITNE) service.

Treatment:

Other: Infusion therapy nursing expert service