TRACT
The Care Trajectory Management Tool
Assess, measure and plan the organisational aspects of patient care
Learn more about integrating the TRACT tool into your workflow. Free during pilot phase.
TRACT is a comprehensive assessment framework that offers valuable insights into the organisational aspects of patient care, for care planning and workload management.
Assess patient care trajectories
Plan
care
Measure nursing workload
Manage the clinical environment
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The TRACT tool offers a systematic framework to describe, explain, and demonstrate care trajectory management.
Easy to use
Simple interface with multi-device functionality.
Visualise
Instantly visualise the workload across any clinical setting.
Integrate
Seamlessly integrate TRACT into your everyday workload.
Why measure care trajectory management?
Care trajectory management is a relatively new concept, which refers to the safety critical, but largely invisible, nursing practices that hold together patient care.
Patient care is complex and healthcare systems are inherently turbulent.
Nurses make multiple interventions to ensure that patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time, by the right person with the right outcome.
“The organisational components of nursing practice are safety critical. Poor care coordination is a leading cause of failure in healthcare quality and safety. TRACT provides nurses with a simple means of assessing, measuring and planning the organisational aspects of patient care.”
Professor Davina Allen
About TRACT
Find out more about how TRACT can work for your healthcare team or organisation.
“We wanted to create a tool that was genuinely useful for nurses.”
Prof. Davina Allen Cardiff University
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Assess patient care trajectories
TRACT offers a framework for the systematic assessment of individual patient care trajectories.
Plan care
TRACT assessments can be used to inform planning of the organisational aspects of patient care.
Manage the clinical environment
TRACT generates data on the different sources of care trajectory complexity on a ward or unit, providing evidence of where changes and interventions can be made to help reduce the organisational workload.
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TRACT builds on research which for the first time made visible the organisational elements of nursing work (Allen, 2015). The development of TRACT was funded by awards from the UK Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) designed to translate the findings of social sciences research for societal impact.
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TRACT was developed by a team led by Davina Allen, Professor of Nursing, Cardiff University. The development process involved nurses from Cardiff & Vale University Health Board representing different specialities and different levels of experience, international nurse academics, and nurse policy leaders.
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A range of tools exist for the purposes of measuring nursing work. These focus on patient acuity or dependency. No tools exist that are explicitly designed to assess the organisational aspects of patient care. This means that currently nursing work is only partially recorded, and that workload modelling fails to capture the full complexity and volume of nursing work.
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A range of nurse staffing tools and methodologies are used internationally. TRACT has been designed to complement a triangulated approach to workforce planning and work alongside existing tools. A triangulated approach involves using several tools or methodologies to inform professional judgements in nurse staffing decisions. TRACT is an important addition to the nursing workforce planning toolkit.
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TRACT includes an integrated TRACT Planner to enable seamless patient assessment and planning.
Finally, the planning solution that nurses and patients need
An easy-to-use app designed to transform the way you practise nursing. A comprehensive toolkit developed by experienced nursing professionals, this app is your one-stop solution for a wide range of nursing needs.
