Single Patient Room Versus Open Bay in NICU
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- End date
- Mar 31, 2023
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- participants needed
- 160
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- sponsor
- IWK Health Centre
Summary
The NICU at the IWK Health Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia is embarking on a redevelopment project that will see its current open bay design converted to a single room care environment. There will be a period during the redevelopment when new single room care unit will coexist with one open bay unit. This provides a unique opportunity to explore the effect of the two different environmental designs on both short and long-term outcomes. Preterm infants (under 31 weeks gestational age) and very low birth weight infants (under 1500 grams) will be randomized to either the open bay unit or the single patient room unit, at 36 months corrected age neurodevelopmental outcomes will be assessed.
Description
Do very preterm infants (< 31 weeks gestational age) and very low birth weight infants (< 1500 grams) admitted to a single patient room in the NICU have improved long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes when compared to very preterm infants admitted to an open bay in the NICU?
Babies who will be admitted to NICU will be randomized to either the open-bay unit or single room care. The randomization will be achieved through the use of the WANNNT (Winnipeg Assessment of Neonatal Nurses Need Tool) and current patient census; this involves taking 1/3 of the fraction of the patient census on each team and adding it to 2/3 of the fraction of the WANNNT. This methodology was reviewed by several IWK Committees including Ethics, Family Leadership Council, Neonatal care Committee and the Family Centered Care Committee. This randomization is designed to ensure fairness and an equitable workload between the two units.
Eligible study infants are also enrolled in the Perinatal Follow-Up Program (PFU) as a standard of care at the IWK Health Center. The baby's legal guardian signs a consent to be enrolled in the PFU Program and to allow collection and use of data for their child as long as their child cannot be identified from the use of the data. All families of infants admitted to NICU, whether or not they have been enrolled in the PFU Program will receive an information package explaining the single patient room NICU compared with the open bay NICU.
At three years of corrected gestational age, all eligible infants will have the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development - version 3 assessment completed which evaluates cognitive, language and motor skills. These infants will also be examined for the presence or absence of cerebral palsy.
Details
| Condition | Neurodevelopmental Outcomes |
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| Treatment | Open Bay Unit, Single patient room |
| Clinical Study Identifier | NCT03867669 |
| Sponsor | IWK Health Centre |
| Last Modified on | 22 January 2021 |
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