Checklist During Multidisciplinary Visits for Reduction of Mortality in Intensive Care Units

NCT ID: NCT01785966

Last Updated: 2015-03-04

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

13637 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-08-31

Study Completion Date

2014-11-30

Brief Summary

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CHECKLIST-ICU will be a cluster randomized trial to ascertain whether the use of an intervention including 1) checklists with assessment of daily goals during the multidisciplinary visit, and 2) clinician prompting can reduce in-hospital mortality of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).

The investigators also aim to describe participant ICUs in terms of the standards for intensive care units proposed by the Brazilian National Health Agency (ANVISA).

Detailed Description

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Cluster randomized trial involving ICUs in Brazil. ICU is the unit of randomization.

The trial will have two stages:

* Stage I - Baseline data.In this stage we will:

* Apply "Safety Attitudes Questionnaire" for the employees of the participating ICU.
* Characterize participant ICUs in terms of the standards (RDC nº7/2010, RDC nº26/2012 e RDC nº 63/2011) for intensive care units proposed by the Brazilian National Health Agency (ANVISA)
* Characterize patients: we will collect data from 60 consecutive critically ill patients from each participant ICU to describe adherence to measures aimed at avoiding ICU complications and clinical outcome measures.
* Stage II - Intervention: This is the main stage for data analysis. ICUs will be randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The experimental group should use a multi-item verbal checklist including assessment of daily goals during the multidisciplinary visits plus clinician prompting. We will collect data from 60 additional patients for each ICU in both study groups and apply "Safety Attitudes Questionnaire".

Conditions

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Critical Care

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Daily checklist and clinician prompting

Checklist during multidisciplinary daily visits + clinician prompting + audit \& feedback

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Daily checklist and clinician prompting

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Interventions are:

Checklists: The checklists are arranged in a paper notebook (one per patient) with a daily list on each page, as most ICUs do not have electronic health record systems. During the multidisciplinary visit, the checklist items are read aloud by the nurse and answered by participants of the visit. The checklist is applied at least once on all week days preferably in the mornings, although we strongly suggest applying it also on weekend days.

Daily Goals and Clinician Prompting: During the clinical discussion of each patient and the application of the checklist, the intensivists write down the daily goals in a standardized form and read them aloud to the team. Every afternoon between 3 and 5 PM, a nurse reviews the daily goals and takes note of any pending items. Subsequently, the nurse prompts the on-call physician, requesting solutions for these pending items.

Usual care

Usual care

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Daily checklist and clinician prompting

Interventions are:

Checklists: The checklists are arranged in a paper notebook (one per patient) with a daily list on each page, as most ICUs do not have electronic health record systems. During the multidisciplinary visit, the checklist items are read aloud by the nurse and answered by participants of the visit. The checklist is applied at least once on all week days preferably in the mornings, although we strongly suggest applying it also on weekend days.

Daily Goals and Clinician Prompting: During the clinical discussion of each patient and the application of the checklist, the intensivists write down the daily goals in a standardized form and read them aloud to the team. Every afternoon between 3 and 5 PM, a nurse reviews the daily goals and takes note of any pending items. Subsequently, the nurse prompts the on-call physician, requesting solutions for these pending items.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Intensive care units, except dedicated coronary care units/cardiac intensive care units and step-down units;
* Must have multidisciplinary daily rounds or coordinators agree to implement daily rounds, including at least one physician and one nurse, conducted at least on week days.


• Adult patients (≥18 years-old) with anticipated ICU length of stay \> 24 hours.

Exclusion Criteria

• We will exclude ICUs that systematically apply checklists in the multiprofessional daily visit. We define systematically applied checklist when all the following criteria are met:

* Content: structured evaluation following a digital or printed document of multiple items focused on prevention of common ICU complications (eg. ventilator-associated pneumonia, stress ulcer, venous thromboembolism and/or catheter-associated bloodstream infection) and/or explicit assessment of daily goals;
* Time frame: daily application of checklist for at least 30 days
* Periodicity: at least 3 days per week
* How is applied: verbal, observational (1 professional check all items), with or without written register


* High probability of death within 24 hours or patients admitted in ICU for palliative care only;
* Suspected or confirmed brain death.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sociedade Hospital Samaritano

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

D'Or Institute for Research and Education

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hospital do Coracao

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Alexandre B Cavalcanti, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Fernando Bozza, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

D'Or Institute for Research and Education

Jorge I Salluh, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

D'Or Institute for Research and Education

Flávia Machado, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Federal University of São Paulo

Edson R Romano, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital do Coracao

Karina Normilio-Silva

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coração

Otavio Berwanger, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Patricia Vendramim, R.N.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Samaritano

Viviane C Chiattone, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Helio P Guimaraes, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Valquiria P Campagnucci, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Derek C Angus, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Critical Care Medicine and CRISMA Center. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Fernanda Carrara, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Latin American Sepsis Institute (LASI)

Juliana Lubarino, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Latin American Sepsis Institute (LASI)

Aline R Sila, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

D'Or Institute for Research and Education

Grazielle Viana, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

D'Or Institute for Research and Education

Lucas P Damiani, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Research Institute - Hospital do Coracao

Chung C Chang, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Division of General Internal Medicine at University of Pittsburgh

Locations

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Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Site Status

Countries

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Brazil

References

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Writing Group for the CHECKLIST-ICU Investigators and the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet); Cavalcanti AB, Bozza FA, Machado FR, Salluh JI, Campagnucci VP, Vendramim P, Guimaraes HP, Normilio-Silva K, Damiani LP, Romano E, Carrara F, Lubarino Diniz de Souza J, Silva AR, Ramos GV, Teixeira C, Brandao da Silva N, Chang CC, Angus DC, Berwanger O. Effect of a Quality Improvement Intervention With Daily Round Checklists, Goal Setting, and Clinician Prompting on Mortality of Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2016 Apr 12;315(14):1480-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.3463.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 27115264 (View on PubMed)

Damiani LP, Cavalcanti AB, Moreira FR, Machado F, Bozza FA, Salluh JI, Campagnucci VP, Normilio-Silva K, Chiattone VC, Angus DC, Berwanger O, Chou H Chang C. A cluster-randomised trial of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Brazilian intensive care units (Checklist-ICU trial): statistical analysis plan. Crit Care Resusc. 2015 Jun;17(2):113-21.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26017129 (View on PubMed)

CHECKLIST-ICU Investigators and BRICNet; Machado F, Bozza F, Ibrain J, Salluh F, Campagnucci VP, Guimaraes HP, Normilio-Silva K, Chiattone VC, Vendramim P, Carrara F, Lubarino J, da Silva AR, Viana G, Damiani LP, Romano E, Teixeira C, da Silva NB, Chang CC, Angus DC, Berwanger O. A cluster randomized trial of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Brazilian intensive care units: study protocol. Implement Sci. 2015 Jan 13;10:8. doi: 10.1186/s13012-014-0190-0.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 25928627 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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11673812310010060

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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