Rehab MATRIX: Impact of a Nursing-Led Acuity Algorithm on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Fall; Satisfaction; Nurse-Patient Relations; Nurse's Role

Treatments: Other: Rehab MATRIX

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02850952

HSC-MS-16-0358

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine whether implementation of Rehab MATRIX will improve patient safety, patient satisfaction and nursing indices.

Full description

The provision of efficient and conscientious nursing care is at the forefront of health care quality. Unfortunately, a lack of objectivity in the assignment of patients to nurses can lead to inequalities of care. Such inequalities translate to poor patient outcomes and diminished patient satisfaction. Furthermore, staff attrition related to nursing fatigue increases the cost of care due to a reliance on supplemental nurses. Rehab MATRIX is a patient assignment tool that objectively categorizes patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation based on nurse identified acuity variables.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Rehabilitation Nursing Staff within Six Study Centers
• Patient hospitalized within the Rehabilitation Unit during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• Other Nursing Staff
• Patients hospitalized on non-rehabilitation units

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Rehab MATRIX

Experimental group

Description:

Rehab MATRIX is a patient assignment tool that objectively categorizes patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation based on nurse identified acuity variables.

Treatment:

Other: Rehab MATRIX