NCT02223273

Brazilian Intervention to Increase Evidence Usage in Practice - Stroke (BRIDGE-Stroke)

A Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Increase in Usage of Evidence-based Practices for Stroke Treatment Using a Multifaceted Strategy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,624 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital do Coracao · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Phase 1: An observational study ( registry) will be conducted with the objective of documenting the practice of stroke treatment in brazilian and latin american hospitals. Phase 2: A cluster randomized trial aiming to evaluate the effect of a multifaceted strategy to increase evidence based treatments usage for stroke patients. The hospitals will be randomized into two groups: the multifaceted strategy group and the usual care group.

Detailed description

Study Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate a multifaceted strategy to increase evidence based therapies for patients with acute ischemic stroke. Study Population; Patients with suspected stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) with symptoms lasting up to 24h hours. Quality Improvement Multifaceted Intervention: The strategy includes a simulation based team training, case manager, check lists, reminders and educational material.

Conditions

• Acute Ischemic Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multifaceted Strategy	1. Simulation Based Team Training 2. Case Manager: a trained person who works in the hospital and is responsible for ensuring the usage of all interventions 3. Reminders - 4. Check lists - decision support algorithm 5. Distribution of educational materials: guidelines and recommendations for best practices

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-01
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2014-08-22
• Last updated: 2018-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil