NCT02922101

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Audit and Feedback Intervention With Quality Improvement Toolbox in Intensive Care

Increasing the Effectiveness and Understanding of Audit and Feedback Interventions in Intensive Care: Protocol for a Mixed-methods Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the addition of a quality improvement toolbox to an online audit and feedback intervention in Dutch intensive care units. The toolbox comprises for each quality indicator (e.g., percentage of patients per shift whose pain is measured) a list of potential bottlenecks in the care process (e.g., staff is unaware of the prevailing guidelines for measuring pain every shift), associated recommendations for actions to solve mentioned bottlenecks (e.g., organize an educational training session), and supporting materials to facilitate implementation of the actions (e.g., a slide show presentation discussing the importance and relevance of measuring pain every shift). Half of the participating intensive care units will only receive online feedback, while the other half will additionally gain access to the integrated toolbox to facilitate planning and executing actions.

Conditions

• Pain Management
• Critical Care
• Quality Improvement

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Audit and Feedback	An online dashboard that provides insight into clinical performance on pain management quality indicators. It also incorporates an empty action plan, in which participating intensive care units can define potential bottlenecks in the care process and what actions they intend to undertake to improve.
BEHAVIORAL	Toolbox	A quality improvement toolbox, incorporated within the action plan, that comprises for each pain management quality indicator (e.g., percentage of patients per shift whose pain is measured) a list of potential bottlenecks in the care process (e.g., staff is unaware of the prevailing guidelines for measuring pain every shift), associated recommendations for actions to solve mentioned bottlenecks (e.g., organize an educational training session), and supporting materials to facilitate implementation of the actions (e.g., a slide show presentation discussing the importance and relevance of measuring pain every shift).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-10-01
• First posted: 2016-10-04
• Last updated: 2019-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands