Behavioral Economic & Staffing Strategies in the ICU
- Conditions
- PainMechanical Ventilation ComplicationICU Acquired WeaknessImplementation ScienceCritical IllnessDelirium
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Realtime audit and feedbackBehavioral: RN Implementation Facilitator
- Registration Number
- NCT06184945
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Nebraska
- Brief Summary
The overarching goal of this study is to support the "real world" assessment of strategies used to foster adoption of several highly efficacious evidence-based practices in healthcare systems that provide care to critically ill adults with known health disparities. Investigators will specifically evaluate two discrete strategies grounded in behavioral economic and implementation science theory (i.e., real-time audit and feedback and registered nurse implementation facilitation) to increase adoption of the ABCDEF bundle in critically ill adults.
- Detailed Description
Millions of survivors of critical illness worldwide experience profound and frequently persistent physical, mental, and cognitive health impairments that are often preventable through the application of existing knowledge. These impairments are commonly acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) and are often initiated and/or exacerbated by known racial and socioeconomic health disparities and outdated mechanical ventilation (MV) liberation and symptom management practices. Indeed, ICU-acquired pain, anxiety, delirium, and weakness are associated with numerous adverse health outcomes including prolonged MV, mortality, functional decline, new institutionalization, and severe neurocognitive dysfunction. A robust body of research demonstrates that clinical outcomes improve when integrated, interprofessional approaches to MV liberation and symptom management are applied early in the course of critical illness. One such approach is the ABCDEF bundle. When applied in everyday practice, ABCDEF bundle performance is consistently associated with meaningful improvements in important patient and healthcare system outcomes. Unfortunately, ABCDEF bundle performance remains unacceptably low as clinicians struggle with multiple barriers to bundle delivery.
Investigator's previous work demonstrates bundle-related clinical decision making is indeed complex and frequently influenced by prevailing ICU social norms, common knowledge deficits, and substantial workflow challenges. Missing from the literature are evidence-based implementation strategies that are adaptable, responsive to community needs, and account for the cultural and organizational factors necessary to increase bundle adoption particularly in traditionally under-resourced settings like safety net hospitals. Until this key gap in knowledge is filled, the excessively high morbidity, mortality, costs, and disparities associated with critical care delivery will continue and the public health benefit of the ABCDEF bundle will not be fully realized.
Congruent with NIH policy, the goal of this proposal is to support the "real world" assessment of strategies used to foster adoption of several highly efficacious evidence-based practices in healthcare systems that provide care to critically ill adults with known health disparities. Based on strong preliminary data, the study's overall objective is to evaluate two discrete strategies grounded in behavioral economic and implementation science theory to increase adoption of the ABCDEF bundle in critically ill adults. The strategies being evaluated target a variety of ICU team members and known behavioral determinants of ABCDEF bundle performance.
Investigators will conduct a 3-arm, pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized, trial to evaluate both implementation (primary) and clinical (secondary) effectiveness outcomes. After creating 6 matched pairs of 12 ICUs from 3 discrete safety net hospitals (estimated total N=8,100 patients on MV), they will randomly be assigned within each matched pair to receive either real-time audit and feedback or a Registered Nurse (RN) implementation facilitator and each pair to one of six wedges. At the end of the 27-month trial, implementation and clinical outcomes will collected for an additional 3 months to evaluate the effects of removing the implementation strategies.
Aim 1: Compare the effectiveness of real-time audit and feedback and RN implementation facilitator on ABCDEF bundle adoption (primary study outcome).
Aim 2: Compare the effectiveness of real-time audit and feedback and RN implementation facilitator on clinical outcomes.
Aim 3: Identify and describe key stakeholders' experiences with, and perspectives of, real-time audit and feedback and RN implementation.
Building on years of successful collaboration, investigator's experienced interprofessional team is ideally suited to perform the proposed work. Study results are expected to impact the field by developing equitable, efficient, effective, and replicable ways of accelerating the reliable uptake of the highly efficacious evidence-based ICU interventions contained in the ABCDEF bundle. This will dually address known healthcare disparities and ultimately improve the care and outcomes of millions of critically ill adults annually.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 8100
- Age >19 years at time of ICU admission
- Received invasive mechanical ventilation while in the ICU
- Admitted to participating cluster ICU
- ICU length of stay of at least 24 hours
- Patient who is admitted to the hospital who is already receiving chronic long-term mechanical ventilation from the home, assisted living, or long-term care setting
- Prisoners
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Audit and Feedback Realtime audit and feedback ICUs receive electronic dashboard that displays realtime ABCDEF bundle performance data RN Implementation Facilitator RN Implementation Facilitator ICUs receive a extra RN who helps facilitate ABCDEF bundle implementation
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportional ABCDEF bundle performance 27 months Defined as the percentage of eligible elements a patient receives on a given ICU day \["bundle dose"\].
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Complete ABCDEF bundle performance 27 months Defined as a patient day in which every eligible element of the bundle was performed (i.e., 100% of the bundle versus anything less; yes/no).
Duration of mechanical ventilation 27 months Days spent in ICU on mechanical ventilation
Trial Locations
- Locations (3)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
🇺🇸Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Ohio State University
🇺🇸Columbus, Ohio, United States
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
🇺🇸Iowa City, Iowa, United States