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

Effectiveness of the “IQM”-Peer-Review-Procedure to improve in-patient outcome-quality - a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial (IMPRESS)

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN10188560
Enrollment
385
Registered
2018-05-18
Start date
2017-01-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-08-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

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

Interventions

The IMPRESS study is a two-armed cluster-randomized controlled intervention trial embedded in a prospective hospital-cohort study. 385 IQM-member-hospitals from Germany are invited to participate. 60

Sponsors

German Research Centre for Air and Space Travel (DLR)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
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

MeasureTime frame
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.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactFelix Walther
felix.walther@ukdd.de+49 (0)351 4581 9710

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 12, 2026