Outcomes in the Palm of Your Hand: Improving the Quality and Continuity of Patient Care

University of Toronto

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Computers, Handheld

Outcomes Assessment, Patient

Treatments

Device: handheld Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00314730

16402

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the usability of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by nurses for collecting, utilizing and communicating patient health information, and the feasibility of using PDAs to increase nurses' access to and utilization of best-practice guidelines.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Nurses are eligible to participate if they work on a participating unit, 20 or more hours/week
Patients are eligible if they are being cared for on a participating unit, are able to provide informed consent in English, and are able to answer questions about their daily activities and symptoms (pain, nausea, dyspnea, fatigue.)

Exclusion criteria