Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Eric Thomas
ORCID ID
Contact details
6431 Fannin MSB 1.122
Houston
77030
United States of America
+1 713 500 6702
eric.thomas@uth.tmc.edu
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Executive walkrounds would improve the safety climate of providers
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Single-centre
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Condition
Patient safety and medical errors
Intervention
Executive walkrounds versus no executive walkrounds
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Safety climate measured using the Safety Climate Survey
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/10/2003
Overall trial end date
31/03/2004
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
All clinical areas in Memorial Hermann Hospital. The unit of randomization was clinical areas. There were 23 units - 12 control, 11 executive walkrounds.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
All clinical areas in one hospital - 23 units.
Participant exclusion criteria
The emergency dept was excluded.
Recruitment start date
01/10/2003
Recruitment end date
31/03/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United States of America
Trial participating centre
6431 Fannin MSB 1.122
Houston
77030
United States of America
Sponsor information
Organisation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (USA)
Sponsor details
Route 1 and College Road East
Princeton
08543-2316
United States of America
+1 609 452 8701
rwj@rwj.org
Sponsor type
Research organisation
Website
Funders
Funder type
Research organisation
Funder name
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (USA)
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
Results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15823204
Correction in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15949037
Publication citations
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Results
Thomas EJ, Sexton JB, Neilands TB, Frankel A, Helmreich RL, The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: a randomized trial of clinical units[ISRCTN85147255] [corrected]., BMC Health Serv Res, 2005, 5, 1, 28, doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-5-28.
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Correction
Thomas EJ, Sexton JB, Neilands TB, Frankel A, Helmreich RL, Correction: The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: A randomized trial of clinical units [ISRCTN85147255]., BMC Health Serv Res, 2005, 5, 46, doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-5-46.