Timing of Morning Rounds for Postpartum Hospitalized Women (PP rounds)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postpartum; Physician Rounds

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed rounds

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02432573

HSC-MS-15-0245

Details and patient eligibility

About

In postpartum hospitalized women, does delayed morning rounding improve patient satisfaction?

Full description

OBJECTIVE To investigate the timing of physician rounds on patient satisfaction

STUDY DESIGN Randomized, controlled, quality improvement trial

OUTCOMES Primary: score on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provers and Systems (HCAPS) survey

Secondary: score on Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Delivered between 0600 and 0000
• Admitted to Memorial Hermann postpartum unit
• Patient managed by the University of Texas Physicians Group and/or obstetrics-gynecology residents

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

Postpartum patients that receive physician rounding at current time

Delayed rounding

Experimental group

Description:

Postpartum patients that receive physician rounding at a delayed time

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed rounds