Nighttime Communication Study

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Family-centered nighttime communication bundle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01836601

IRB-P00006501

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to determine whether a family-centered nighttime communication intervention improves: 1) shared understanding by parents, residents, and nurses of hospitalized pediatric patient's medical plans, 2) parent-reported errors, 3) parent and provider experience of nighttime medical care.

Enrollment: 1,334 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of patients admitted to the general pediatrics inpatient units
• Overnight nurses working on the general pediatrics inpatient units
• Overnight residents working on the general pediatrics inpatient units

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking parents

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,334 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-nighttime communication intervention arm

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm is the pre-intervention arm of parents, nurses, and residents before the nighttime communication bundle has been enacted.

Post-nighttime communication intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

This arm is the post-intervention arm of parents, nurses, and residents after the nighttime communication bundle has been enacted.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family-centered nighttime communication bundle