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A Ten-state Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of the Institute for Health Improvement's Project JOINTS

NCT02886741 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 549

Last updated 2016-09-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In 2011, IHI designed a new campaign to accelerate uptake of evidence-based practices that had been shown to prevent surgical site infections (SSI) associated with hip and knee arthroplasty. Project JOINTS (Joining Organizations IN Tackling SSIs was a multi-faceted, disciplined initiative that used the Rapid Spread Network (defined above), methods and tools developed during previous IHI campaigns to influence orthopedic practices and hospitals performing hip and knee arthroplasty. Rather than launch nationally as other campaigns have done, Project JOINTS was introduced in a cluster-randomized fashion to enable a rigorous, independent evaluation of its effectiveness in promoting uptake of new evidence-based practices.

Conditions

  • Disorder of Hip Region

Interventions

OTHER

Quality Improvement Campaign

"How To Guide" addressed development of a QI plan; small-scale tests of change- ("PDSA cycles") to refine implementation approaches through iterative learning; and reliance on multi-disciplinary implementation teams. IHI recruited relevant professional organizations to identify faculty.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement

    collaborator OTHER

  • RAND

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric C Schneider, MD · The Commonwealth Fund

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-29
Primary Completion
2012-10-31
Completion
2012-10-31

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