PEWS Implementation in an LMIC Setting (PEWSPAL)

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oncology

Treatments: Other: pediatric early warning scoring system and resuscitation curriculum

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04180306

PEWSpalestine

Details and patient eligibility

About

The PEWS implementation study will be undertaken with the following objectives:

1. Assess the effectiveness of implementation of PEWS and resuscitation training to identify patients at risk for clinical deterioration and to impact the frequency of clinical interventions made by treating providers on these patients.
2. Assess the effectiveness of implementation of PEWS and resuscitation training to impact time sensitive clinical interventions made on patients at risk for clinical deterioration.
3. Assess the impact of implementation of PEWS and resuscitation training on length of stay for patients admitted to the pediatric oncology ward.

Enrollment: 1,850 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients eligible for the study are defined as pediatric patients (between birth and 12 years of age) admitted and subsequently discharged from the pediatric oncology ward in Beit Jala, Palestine and Gaza City, Palestine between March 2019 to June 2020

Exclusion criteria

• Patients will be excluded if they are not admitted to inpatient status. No oncology outpatients such as those in the infusion program will be included.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,850 participants in 1 patient group

Inpatient pediatric oncology patients

Other group

Description:

All patients admitted to the pediatric oncology ward will be in the cohort

Treatment:

Other: pediatric early warning scoring system and resuscitation curriculum