RTLS Technology Study

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

Status

Completed

Conditions

Inpatients

Staff

Treatments

Other: RTLS data

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04114110

2019SUR107

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the productivity of the hospital workforce utilizing a unique dataset that is stored at the Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT). The data is recorded by a Real Time Location System (RTLS) that tracks the second-by-second physical location of patients, staff, and medical equipment. Using this data, the plan is to measure the amount of time that clinical staff spend with patients and with other clinical staff, and then explore how these measures of contact time influence patient health outcomes. The data will also be used to measure the location and movement of patients during their hospital stay, and test the impact of moving patients between wards on their health outcomes. In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, impact of COVID19 on patient contact time, patient outcomes and professional working practices will also be examined.

Enrollment

2,000 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients admitted to inpatient departments at RWT and are present at RWT during the period of 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 inclusive.

Exclusion criteria

Patients admitted to outpatient wards at RWT;
Patients that were not admitted at or discharged from RWT between 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 inclusive.