Facilitated Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship in Wisconsin Nursing Homes

NCT ID: NCT03520010

Last Updated: 2021-12-23

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

338 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-06-01

Study Completion Date

2021-11-24

Brief Summary

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The Wisconsin Healthcare-Associated Infections in Long-Term Care Coalition has developed a toolkit of evidence-based best practices to improve the management of urinary tract infection (UTI) in Wisconsin nursing homes (NHs). The theory and evidence supporting the individual improvement strategies promoted in the "Wisconsin UTI Improvement Toolkit" are strong but their combined impact on antibiotic prescribing in Wisconsin NHs is not known. Moreover, many Wisconsin NHs lack the internal resources and expertise to successfully implement and sustain the change interventions recommended in the toolkit. Consequently, there is a critical need to identify effective strategies to support implementation of best practices in this setting. The investigators hypothesize that an externally-facilitated implementation based on coaching and peer-to-peer learning will result in superior toolkit adoption and reduced rates of antibiotic utilization compared to a standard implementation.

To test these two hypotheses, the investigators are proposing a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation randomized clinical trial in 20 Wisconsin NHs. Facilities randomized to the standard implementation approach will participate in a kickoff meeting and have access to a variety of online implementation resources. Facilities randomized to the enhanced implementation approach will have access to the same resources but will also be assigned a clinical coach and be invited to participate in ongoing collaborative learning sessions. The clinical coach will meet regularly with NH staff to guide the facility through implementation of the toolkit, including assembling a change team, performing an assessment to identify baseline barriers and facilitators of change, and ongoing integration of the toolkit practices into existing workflows. The learning collaborative will bring NH participants together to share change and improvement strategies with each other. UTI prescriptions per 1,000 resident-days in the study arms will be compared using generalized linear mixed models. A mixed methods evaluation structured around the REAIM framework (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance) will be employed to assess differences in toolkit implementation among facilities in both arms of the study.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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UTI - Urinary Tract Infection

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Internally-driven implementation

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Internally-driven implementation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Study NHs randomized to the control arm will participate in kickoff meetings introducing the different UTI toolkit components. The meeting will also cover topics on how to assemble a change team, how to use the different tools in the UTI toolkit, and how to track process and outcome measures to monitor progress. NHs assigned to the control arm will have access to a web-based data tracking tool that will allow them to trend a number of study outcomes (e.g., number of monthly urine cultures and UTI treatment events) in their facility over time. Instructions and educational tools will be made available as an online resource but otherwise NHs in the control arm will be expected to implement the Wisconsin UTI Improvement Toolkit using existing internal resources.

Externally-facilitated implementation

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Externally-facilitated implementation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

NHs randomized to the externally-facilitated arm will attend the same kickoff meetings and have access to the same online resources as the control arm but will also be assigned a clinical coach and will have the opportunity to participate in a series of hosted peer-to-peer learning opportunities. The clinical coach will meet regularly with NH staff to guide the facility through implementation of the Wisconsin UTI Improvement Toolkit.

Interventions

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Externally-facilitated implementation

NHs randomized to the externally-facilitated arm will attend the same kickoff meetings and have access to the same online resources as the control arm but will also be assigned a clinical coach and will have the opportunity to participate in a series of hosted peer-to-peer learning opportunities. The clinical coach will meet regularly with NH staff to guide the facility through implementation of the Wisconsin UTI Improvement Toolkit.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Internally-driven implementation

Study NHs randomized to the control arm will participate in kickoff meetings introducing the different UTI toolkit components. The meeting will also cover topics on how to assemble a change team, how to use the different tools in the UTI toolkit, and how to track process and outcome measures to monitor progress. NHs assigned to the control arm will have access to a web-based data tracking tool that will allow them to trend a number of study outcomes (e.g., number of monthly urine cultures and UTI treatment events) in their facility over time. Instructions and educational tools will be made available as an online resource but otherwise NHs in the control arm will be expected to implement the Wisconsin UTI Improvement Toolkit using existing internal resources.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Medicare and Medicaid (dually) certified nursing homes
* Long-term care and skilled nursing beds \> 50 beds
* The management of the facility agrees to random allocation to control or intervention group
* The facility is able to submit 3 sequential months of data on facility urine culture and antibiotic treatment rates via the study web portal


For the interviews and observations, all facility-employed and per diem nursing staff (certified nursing assistants \[CNA\], licensed practical nurses \[LPN\] and registered nurses \[RN\]) who are responsible for the care of \>3 residents will be included in the study. For the questionnaires, all nursing home clinical care staff will be invited to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

* Assisted living facility wards
* Specialty care (ventilator or strict rehabilitation) wards

Criteria for Nursing Home staff (for interviews and observations, sample size 400)


For the interviews and observations, nursing home staff responsible for the care of at most 3 residents.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Christopher J Crnich, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Locations

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Ford JH 2nd, Nora AT, Crnich CJ. Moving behavioral interventions in nursing homes from planning to action: a work system evaluation of a urinary tract infection toolkit implementation. Implement Sci Commun. 2023 Dec 12;4(1):156. doi: 10.1186/s43058-023-00535-y.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38087393 (View on PubMed)

Ford JH 2nd, Vranas L, Coughlin D, Selle KM, Nordman-Oliveira S, Ryther B, Ewers T, Griffin VL, Eslinger A, Boero J, Hardgrove P, Crnich CJ. Effect of a Standard vs Enhanced Implementation Strategy to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Nursing Homes: A Trial Protocol of the Improving Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Institutions Through Facilitated Implementation (IMUNIFI) Study. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e199526. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9526.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31509204 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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A534265

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

SMPH/MEDICINE/MEDICINE*I

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Protocol Version 6/16/2020

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2018-0125

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id