Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Bronagh Walsh
ORCID ID
Contact details
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Building 68
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 7991
b.m.walsh@soton.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
SPGS801
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Is a nurse-led unit an acceptable and cost-effective model of postacute intermediate care? (alongside already-funded RCT assessing in-hospital effectiveness)
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
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Symptoms and general pathology: Other symptoms and general pathology
Intervention
Economic evaluation of 240 patients randomly assigned to conventional care or nurse-led unit
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Primary Outcomes: Length of stay, physical functioning (Barthel), discharge destination
Also: costs of care, mortality and complications, service use, re-admissions
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/08/1998
Overall trial end date
31/07/2000
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
240 patients + subgroups, aged over 16, medically stable but in need of further nursing or inpatient care
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
240
Participant exclusion criteria
Patients referred for palliative care
Recruitment start date
01/08/1998
Recruitment end date
31/07/2000
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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
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
2001 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11222419
Publication citations
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Results
Steiner A, Walsh B, Pickering RM, Wiles R, Ward J, Brooking JI, , Therapeutic nursing or unblocking beds? A randomised controlled trial of a post-acute intermediate care unit., BMJ, 2001, 322, 7284, 453-460.