Patients admitted to the intensive care unit
Conditions
Interventions
Pre-pos intervention study about quality improvement and medical education about cardiac enzymes laboratory measurements. In the control period before the educational intervention, no modification was
Behavioural
Other
Sponsors
Instituto Sírio-Libanês de Ensino e Pesquisa
Instituto Sírio-Libanês de Ensino e Pesquisa
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients admitted to one of the study units and the intensivist request for serum cardiac enzymes measurement; older than 18 years old.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Unit stay less than 12 hours; pregnancy; life expectancy less than 48 hours; end-of-life care.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of the number of CKMB and troponin measurement requests in the year after educational intervention, verified by the number of tests ordering per patient, with a variation of at least 10% in number of test ordering. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Concomitance of CKMB and troponin ordering, defined by the number of orders with concomitance of CKMB and troponin ordering per period, from a prevalence of 70% and an expected reduction of 10%. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactLeandro Taniguchi
Instituto Sírio-Libanês de Ensino e Pesquisa
Outcome results
None listed