Individualized Discharge Planning in Patients With Rib Fracture

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rib Fractures

Treatments: Behavioral: Individualized discharge planning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04168996

DF0086UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with rib fractures may develop pneumonia and even respiratory failure requiring critical care, ventilator management, and hospitalization. Discharge planning is a broad range of time-limited services designed to ensure healthcare continuity, avoid preventable poor outcomes among at-risk populations, and promote the safe and timely transfer of patients care.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The inclusion criteria were to be patients hospitalized due to fractures ribs due to falls, traffic accidents, and aggression.

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion criteria were an inability to provide informed consent, the presence of psychiatric or cognitive disorders, progressive neurological disorders, or inability to cooperate. Patients who had experienced hospitalization in the Intense Care Unit were also excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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81 participants in 2 patient groups

rib fracture patients group

Experimental group

Description:

Individualized discharge planning in rib fracture patients with different severity of lung injury

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individualized discharge planning

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients included in control group received standard conservative treatment during hospitalization