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Reducing Adverse Events in Pediatric Intensive Care Units in Argentina

NCT03924570 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2024-04-23

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Summary

Introduction: Errors in communication, and during transfers of information and medical responsibility, are frequent and risky. Objectives: Primary: To evaluate the effect of the implementation of the I-PASS® transfer program on the reduction in the frequency of medical attention errors in intensive pediatric therapies in the public hospitals setting. Secondary: 1) Measure the effect of the intervention in increasing the frequency of use of key elements of high quality verbal and written communication during the transfer of patients by health professionals. 2) To explore the effect of the intervention on the culture of patient safety among health professionals who assist pediatric patients in areas of clinical hospitalization. Material and Methods: Design: Staged clinical trial (Stepped Wedge) Duration: 9 months (progressive enrollment of 2 participating units every 2 months). Scope: Pediatric Intensive Care Units Subjects: health professionals involved in transfers in each institution. Intervention: Implementation of a multi-faceted evidence-based transfer package (I-PASS®) that has already been adapted for use in Argentina. The program includes multiple components, including educational training, implementation of a mnemonic verbal and written delivery rule I-PASS®, live observations of transfers to drive continuous improvement of the quality of intervention, through the feedback and a campaign of visual reinforcement materials to ensure sustainability. Events of interest: acceptance of the intervention. Frequency of preventable damages associated with medical care measured with GAPPS® as screening tools. Safety culture survey. Length of the transfer before and after the intervention.

Conditions

  • Medical Errors
  • Preventable Adverse Events

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

IPASS

IPASS is behavioral package to improve transitions of care by providing a framework to hands off.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital JP Garrahan

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Ministry of Public Health, Argentina

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio, MD · Director. Quality and Safety in Healthcare. IECS

  • Luis Landry, MD · Director. Intensive Care Unit. Hospital Pedro Garrahan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-15
Primary Completion
2019-08-15
Completion
2019-09-30

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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