Intentional Rounding in Internal Medicine (INTENTO)

Fadoi Foundation, Italy

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hospitalization

Treatments: Other: Intentional Rounding

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04257422

FADOI.03.2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Each investigator will have to collect data for 50 hospitalized patients in the Internal Medicine wards. If the center is randomized to Intentional Rounding, the staff of nurses and OSS will have to implement the new care strategy.

Full description

The centers participating in the study are randomized to the Intentional Roundig group and the Control group, in a 1: 1 ratio. In the randomized centers for experimental intervention, a training intervention lasting about 4 hours was conducted by a nurse expert in Intentional Rounding.

At the end of the study, training is also scheduled for the Control Centers.

Enrollment: 1,822 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Signature of informed consent
• Patients who understand Italian

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who deny informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,822 participants in 2 patient groups

Intentional Rounding

Experimental group

Description:

In the centers randomized to Intentional Rounding the ward nurses will have to adopt a new proactive care method towards hospitalized patients

Treatment:

Other: Intentional Rounding

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

In randomized controlled centers, nurses guarantee the standard care provided by the ward