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Impression of indwelling urinary catheters in Australian aged care properties
What’s the IDC-IMPROVE venture?
Goal
To help Australia’s aged care workforce to take care of folks with urinary catheters in aged care properties.
goal
To ascertain the feasibility of conducting a definitive randomised management trial to guage the results of the IDC-IMPROVE Catheter Care Bundle in aged care properties.
research design
A multi-centre, facility-level cluster randomised management feasibility trial to consider the feasibility of implementing the IDC-IMPROVE Catheter Care Bundle in Australian aged care properties. 24 aged care properties throughout Victoria, South Australia and Queensland will probably be recruited.
what we’re evaluating
PROJECT SUMMARY
is your aged care dwelling INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?
Please contact the venture group at [email protected] to precise your curiosity.
Collaborators
NARI, the Continence Basis of Australia, the College of Melbourne, the College of South Australia, Flinders College, the College of Alberta (Canada), Central Queensland College, the Australian Prostate Centre, Austin Well being, Regis Aged Care, Darling Downs Well being Service, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, the Continence Nurses Society Australia, and the Australian and New Zealand Urological Nurses Society.
Funder
The venture is funded by the Medical Analysis Future Fund (MRFF) – Clinician Researchers Initiative – 2022 Clinician Researchers: Nurses, Midwives and Allied Well being Grant Alternative (MRFF2023825).
ethics
This venture has obtained ethics approval from Austin Well being (HREC/107165/Austin-2024).
Contact
If you want to know extra about IDC-IMPROVE or have any queries, please electronic mail the venture group at [email protected].
References
- Division of Well being and Aged Care. 2022-23 Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997. Australian Institute of Well being and Welfare. Accessed 25 March, 2024. https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/2022-23-report-on-the-operation-of-the-aged-care-act-1997?language=en
- Australian Institute of Well being and Welfare. (2024). AN-ACC Dataset 2022-23: Customized knowledge request.
- Ostaszkiewicz, J. Batchelor, F. Gilbert, A. Cecil, J. Vaughan, M. Tay, C. Corridor, I. Dow, B. (2024). A session to tell a focused response to catheter-associated care and problems in Victorian residential aged care properties. Nationwide Ageing Analysis Institute (NARI), March 2024
