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Outreach: A Programme for Timely Treatment of Critically Ill Patients in a University Hospital

NCT00306345 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2007-07-12

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Summary

The identification of patients with potential early organ failure is the key in preventing admission or readmission to a critical care facility. The primary goal of the Outreach Project is to ensure that all patients with threatening organ failure receive appropriate and timely treatment in a suitable area; avoid admission to the intensive care unit (ICU); and share ICU skills by a partnership in education. The objectives of the study are to determine whether the introduction of an intensive care unit based medical emergency team, responding to hospital-wide preset criteria of physiologic instability, will decrease the number of predefined serious adverse events (SAEs) and to investigate the effects on quality of life and costs in a general surgery population.

Study Hypothesis: The Outreach intervention will decrease the number of predefined serious adverse events; increase quality of life; and decrease costs.

Conditions

  • Patient Centered Care
  • Postoperative Care
  • Critical Illness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Outreach

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hans van der Hoeven, Professor · UMCN

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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