Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Ms Helen Rushforth
ORCID ID
Contact details
School of Nursing
Level B South Block
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton
SO15 4GP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 80 779 085
her@soton.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
SEO077
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To determine whether suitably trained nurses can undertake the pre-operative assessment of children receiving day case or minor surgery as safely and effectively as senior house officers.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Condition
Paediatric nursing
Intervention
Preoperative assessment of children for surgery by trained nurse (intervention) or SHO (control).
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Assessment by paediatric registrar.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/10/2000
Overall trial end date
01/10/2002
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1000 children attending for day case or minor orthopaedic surgery
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
1000
Participant exclusion criteria
First child on each operating list to avoid delay in starting
Recruitment start date
01/10/2000
Recruitment end date
01/10/2002
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
School of Nursing
Southampton
SO15 4GP
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Executive South East (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
2006 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16634381
Publication citations
-
Results
Rushforth H, Burge D, Mullee M, Jones S, McDonald H, Glasper EA, Nurse-led paediatric pre operative assessment: an equivalence study., Paediatr Nurs, 2006, 18, 3, 23-29.