Effectiveness of a collegial consultation procedure to improve in-patient care - a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Primary: ventilation >24h Secondary: stroke, heart attack, COPD, pneumonia, colorectal resection; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN10188560
• Lead Sponsor: German Research Centre for Air and Space Travel (DLR)

Brief Summary

2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35879010/ (added 26/07/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-05-18
• Study Completion: 2019-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 15 August 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 385

Inclusion Criteria

Hospital:
1. Member of the Association Initiative Quality in Medicine
2. Located in Germany
3. Treating 10 patients in 2016 who were ventilated > 24h
4. Consented into the study in the written form

Exclusion Criteria

Does not meet inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Age- and sex-adjusted mean inpatient mortality rate of hospitals in the intervention or control group within one year before (baseline) and one year follow-up after the peer-review procedure (post-intervention). The primary outcome is measured for patients who receive ventilation >24h

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Age- and sex-adjusted mean inpatient mortality rate of every participating hospital regardless of observation, intervention or control group in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The secondary outcome is measured for patients who receive ventilation >24h and colorectal resection or patients with myocardial infarction, stroke, COPD and pneumonia, respectively. For all analyses the unit of analysis is the hospital, not the individual patient.