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Effects of External Inspection on Sepsis Detection and Treatment

NCT02747121 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7407

Last updated 2022-03-24

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Summary

External inspections are widely used as means to improve the quality of care. Despite their widespread use, there is limited knowledge about whether and how they affect the quality of care. This study uses inspection with detection and treatment of sepsis in hospitals as a case to evaluate the effect of inspections on the quality of care and to explore how inspections affect the hospitals.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

External inspection of health services

The intervention is external inspections of acute hospitals addressing early detection and treatment of sepsis. The intervention is delivered on an organizational level. Individuals are not assigned to an intervention. The investigator use data from individuals to assess if the organizational intervention affects care. Therefore the investigator argues that that the study is observational. The inspection will have two components, a system revision and a follow up audit with verification of patient records 8 months later. The inspection can be considered a complex intervention. The study does not intend to evaluate the individual effects of the different components of the inspection, rather the effect of the inspection as a whole.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bergen

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Norwegian Board of Health Supervision

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Fredrik Andresen, MD · Head of Norwegian Board of Health Supervision

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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