Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections, Daily Spontaeous Breathing Trials, DVT Prophylaxis, Pressure Ulcer Prophylaxis, Restrictive Blood Transfusion Strategy, Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia
Conditions
Keywords
best practices, performance improvement, intensive care, measurement
Brief summary
The pragmatic issue at hand how to get physicians and nurses to use best practices… and how to measure consequences of their implementation. This is the science of knowledge translation, which we are realizing is an organic entity. As part of our Critical Care Strategy our goal is to improve the quality and continuity of critical care within our health care system. Toward this goal we are implementing a program which links 16 Ontario hospitals through their critical care units in a Provincial Network.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALFocused knowledge translation strategies
Sponsors
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
Huntsville District Memorial Hospital
Lake Of The Woods District Hospital
Lakeridge Health Corporation
North Bay General Hospital
North York General Hospital
Northumberland Hills Hospital
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Peterborough Regional Health Centre
Sault Area Hospital
Scarborough General Hospital
Scarborough Grace Hospital
Sudbury Regional Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital Of Barrie
Michael Garron Hospital
West Parry Sound Health Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
ECT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Cohort of hospitals with Intensive Care Units in Ontario
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Relative risk of receiving best practices in the ICU. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ICU length of stay | — |
| Barriers to best practice use in the ICU | — |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed