Evaluation of a national quality improvement program to overcome barriers to using performance data in intensive care medicine

Evaluation of a national quality improvement program to overcome barriers to using performance data in intensive care medicine: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN50542146

Enrollment

Registered

2010-11-01

Start date

2009-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2016-10-17

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Conditions

Quality improvement in intensive care medicine Not Applicable

Interventions

Intensive care units participating in InFoQI establish a local multidisciplinary quality improvement team, consisting of at least one intensivist and one ICU nurse. The team's main tasks are to formul

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Intensive Care Units that are able to provide their performance data to the national comparative quality registry on intensive care medicine in the Netherlands (NICE registry) and have at least one intensivist and one ICU nurse available for a minimum of four hours per month each. Informed consent was signed by the ICU management before randomisation.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Intensive Care Units that did not meet the inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Clinical: ICU length of stay 2. Non-clinical: Proportion of shifts with a bed occupancy of 100% or more	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Clinical: 1.1. Hospital mortality of ICU patients 1.2. Respiration duration 2. Non-clinical: Proportion of shifts with a nurse-to-patient ratio below 0.5	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 28, 2026