Evaluation of a national quality improvement program to overcome barriers to using performance data in intensive care medicine

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Quality improvement in intensive care medicine; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN50542146
• Lead Sponsor: Academic Medical Centre (AMC) (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-11-01
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

Intensive Care Units that are able to provide their performance data to the national comparative quality registry on intensive care medicine in the Netherlands (NICE registry) and have at least one intensivist and one ICU nurse available for a minimum of four hours per month each. Informed consent was signed by the ICU management before randomisation.

Exclusion Criteria

Intensive Care Units that did not meet the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Clinical: <br>ICU length of stay<br>2. Non-clinical: <br>Proportion of shifts with a bed occupancy of 100% or more

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Clinical: <br>1.1. Hospital mortality of ICU patients<br>1.2. Respiration duration<br>2. Non-clinical: <br>Proportion of shifts with a nurse-to-patient ratio below 0.5