David A Richards, Jess Bollen, Ben Jones, G J Melendez-Torres, Claire Hulme, Emma Cockcroft, Heather Cook, Joanne Cooper, Siobhan Creanor, Susanne Cruickshank, Phoebe Dawe, Faye Doris, Heather Iles-Smith, Merryn Kent, Pip Logan, Abby O'Connell, Jakub Onysk, Rosie Owens, Lynne Quinn, Anne Marie Rafferty, Lidia Romanczuk, Anne Marie Russell, Maggie Shepherd, Sally J Singh, Holly V R Sugg, Jo Thompson Coon, Susannah Tooze, Fiona C Warren, Bethany Whale, Stephen Wootton
AIM: To evaluate the impact of usual care plus a fundamental nursing care guideline compared to usual care only for patients in hospital with COVID-19 on patient experience, care quality, functional ability, treatment outcomes, nurses' moral distress, patient health-related quality of life and cost-effectiveness. DESIGN: Parallel two-arm, cluster-level randomized controlled trial. METHODS: Between 18th January and 20th December 2021, we recruited (i) adults aged 18 years and over with COVID-19, excluding those invasively ventilated, admitted for at least three days or nights in UK Hospital Trusts; (ii) nurses caring for them...
November 20, 2023: Journal of Advanced Nursing