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Hospitals face the challenge to continually improve their quality of care. In order to achieve this goal, they have to focus on both improving clinical practice and increasing the involvement of patients in the healthcare process. Both factors are equally important to quality of care. The World Health Organization highlights the role that patients and their family could play in the improvement of healthcare. Active patient participation reduces communication errors, increases patient empowerment and is associated with positive health and psychosocial outcomes. A possible strategy to improve patient participation through communication can be bedside shift report (BSR). Bedside shift report is a process where shift-to-shift report between nurses is, if approved by the patient, executed at the patient's bedside in order to improve the patient's involvement. Bedside shift report has the potential to result in more patient satisfaction, better clinical outcomes, improvement of health education and enhanced team coherence. Preliminary research indicates that BSR decreases safety incidents and adverse events and readmissions, positively influences staff satisfaction, offers beneficial financial effects by reducing nurses' overtime, and allows direct patient care to start earlier. Despite of these effects, rigorous and large-scale scientific research on this topic is lacking. Currently, the available evidence is scarce and mostly consists of single case or small-scale studies. Longitudinal results on effectiveness and sustainability of BSR are also unknown or inconclusive. There is a need for an increased number of controlled studies to evaluate the impact of BSR on patient, staff and economic outcomes and its longitudinal results. The aim of this study is four-folded: 1. The development and fine-tuning of a BSR-intervention and implementation protocol by using diagnostic interviews, co-design, and pilot studies. 2. A quantitative evaluation of BSR in comparison with care as usual on patient-related, clinical, and nurse-related outcomes. 3. A qualitative evaluation of the feasibility, appropriateness and meaningfulness of BSR as a method to improve communication and patient participation with a particular interest in the experience of benefits and disadvantages by healthcare professionals and patients. 4. A process evaluation of BSR to determine the intervention fidelity and to assess the evolution of BSR over the period of the study (e.g. adaptations, consistent practice). The study design was based on the Medical Research Council-framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions. Power calculation indicates a minimum of 5 experimental wards with 35 patients should be included in the study. The hospital, the specialization of the ward and the nurse-patient ratio will be used for the matched controlled assignment.


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NCT number NCT02714582
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Ghent
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date March 2016
Completion date May 2018

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