The Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)

Summary

The purpose of the study is to test whether the health care provider access and training in CERTAIN (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness), would facilitate timely and error free best-practice delivery and minimize preventable death and costly complications in critically ill patients.

Conditions

• Critical Illness
• Sepsis
• Respiratory Failure
• Shock
• Coma
• Bleeding
• Trauma

Interventions

OTHER

Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)

This study is about training and implementation of best critical care practices in the international ICUs with variable resources facilitated by access to a specifically designed electronic checklist

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mayo Clinic

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ognjen Gajic, MD · Mayo Clinic

• Marija Kojicic, MD · Institute for Pulmonary Diseases, Novi Sad, Serbia

• Rahul Kashyap, MD · Mayo Clinic

• Marcus Schultz, MD · University of Amsterdam

• Michelle N Gong, MD · Montefiore Medical Center, New York USA

• Oguz Kilickaya, MD · Gulhane Military Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey

• Neill Adhikari, MD · University of Toronto, Toronto Canada

• Linda Bucher, PhD · College of Health Sciences, University of Delavere, Delawere USA

• Daniel Talmor, MD · Beth Israel Deakoness Medical Center, Boston USA

• Yue Dong, MD · Mayo Clinic

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2013-11-30

Primary Completion

2017-12-31

Completion

2018-03-31

Countries

• Belarus
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brazil
• China
• Croatia
• Dominican Republic
• India
• Ireland
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Poland
• Saudi Arabia
• Serbia
• Turkey (Türkiye)
• Uganda

Study Locations