Rescue for Emergency Surgery Patients Observed to uNdergo Acute Deterioration

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

9064 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-03-05

Study Completion Date

2026-02-28

Brief Summary

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This is a Five Year programme designed to identify and evaluate human factors interventions to improve the response to patients deteriorating following emergency surgery.

The programme comprises four work packages:

Work Package 1: Qualitative interviews and observations to analyse current rescue systems; Work Package 2: Identify and co-design interventions to improve rescue systems,involving both staff and patients and carers; Work Package 3: Mixed-methods feasibility trial across 3 sites in England, Work Package 4: Step-wedge randomised control trial based across 24 hospital sites in England, evaluating efficacy of interventions in improving response to deteriorating patients.

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Detailed Description

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Patient safety researchers study problems in healthcare systems which harm patients. The investigators wish to study a healthcare situation where system problems are costing lives. In Emergency General Surgery (EGS), dealing mainly with patients with severe abdominal pain, the death rate after abdominal surgery to find out what's wrong (called 'laparotomy') is 5 times higher than for similar routine surgery. Studies of serious complications after major operations show that when patients deteriorate after surgery, their chances of survival depend on how quickly and how well clinical teams react. The investigators plan to analyse how EGS teams currently treat deteriorating patients, and help them develop and test better response systems. Up to 3000 deaths per year could be avoided if these systems were improved . Human Factors science analyses how complex work systems succeed or fail, and how to improve them. The investigators will conduct a Human Factors analysis of real life responses to deterioration in EGS laparotomy patients, examining how staff actually deal with deteriorating patients (referred to as "work as done"), and how this differs from official guidelines (referred to as "work as imagined"). A modern approach to Human Factors called "Safety II" studies both strengths and weaknesses of systems to design solutions. The investigators will use this method to analyse current EGS rescue systems, and develop a new system for managing deterioration, including ways of involving patients or carers effectively. The investigators will test and modify this system until it can be shown that it improves team performance during rescue. Once it appears stable and effective, the investigators will test it in a multi-hospital trial. Hospitals will start using the new system at different dates (decided by chance), and the investigators will compare their performance before and after they start.

The investigators will study the cost-effectiveness of the intervention and analyse what worked well and why, to make sure the lessons are learned effectively.

Conditions

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Failure to Rescue Emergencies

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Step-wedge, cluster-randomised trial

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Human Factors Interventions

A 'bundle' of human factors interventions designed to improve response to deteriorating patients.

Group Type OTHER

FRAM Model and Human Factors/Quality Improvement Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The group will use semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations to inform development of a Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) model of the process for rescue of deteriorating patients in EGS, using information from 3 hospitals. A focus group approach will be used in co-designing reform of the system for responding to post-operative deterioration, working with small groups of frontline clinical staff from relevant areas in the three Trusts involved.

Interventions

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FRAM Model and Human Factors/Quality Improvement Intervention

The group will use semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations to inform development of a Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) model of the process for rescue of deteriorating patients in EGS, using information from 3 hospitals. A focus group approach will be used in co-designing reform of the system for responding to post-operative deterioration, working with small groups of frontline clinical staff from relevant areas in the three Trusts involved.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Senior Medical staff in EGS and in other departments and disciplines with important roles in rescue (Anaesthetics, Gastroenterology, Interventional Radiology, Intensive Treatment Unit)
* Junior medical staff in EGS (First Year 1 and 2, Core trainee and Surgical Trainee 3 + grades)
* Senior nursing staff in EGS and other relevant departments (Theatres, Intensive Treatment Unit/outreach)
* Recovered patients or their carers

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients lacking mental capacity
* Patients who cannot communicate in English AND for whom translation facilities cannot be secured
* Patients with documented PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) related to their experience of complications after laparotomy

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

100 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No