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Daily Checklists and Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit

NCT01396044 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 451

Last updated 2012-12-04

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Summary

Medical errors account for tens of thousands of deaths and tens of billions of dollars in healthcare costs in the United States every year. One field that has seen the strongest push toward quality improvement has been critical care medicine, likely because its particularly high degree of medical complexity makes it a practice area prone to high error rates with serious consequences. One of the most commonly used interventions used to help reduce errors in the intensive care unit (ICU) has been the implementation of checklists.

The investigators propose a clinical trial in a University critical care setting to determine whether an electronic checklist versus verbal prompting to use a written checklist improves clinical practice and patient outcomes. The investigators also plan to compare these data with a time period prior to the study to determine if the electronic checklist or verbal prompting are better than usual care. The investigators hypothesize that both the electronic checklist and verbal prompting to use a written checklist will be better for clinical practice and patient outcomes than usual care, and that verbal prompting will lead to better outcomes compared to the electronic checklist.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Electronic checklist

Electronic checklist for process of care issues implemented in our institution. Training on a regular basis of the electronic checklist arm to use the electronic checklist. Process of care issues on the electronic checklist include several that are under investigation: antibiotics and mechanical ventilation.

OTHER

Verbal prompting

Prompting by study investigators of physicians on the verbal prompting arm. Prompting will include questions related to antibiotic utilization and mechanical ventilation weaning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Curtis H Weiss, MD · Northwestern University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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