NCT03725774

The SUMAMOS EXCELENCIA Project: Assessment of Implementation of Best Practices in a National Health System

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Teresa Moreno Casbas · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

There is a gap between research and clinical practice, leading to variability in decision-making. Clinical audits are an effective strategy for improving implementation of best practices. Quasi-experimental, multicentre, before-and-after. Primary-care and hospital-care units and associated socio-healthcare structures, and the patients attended at both. Implementation of evidence-based recommendations by application of the Getting Research into Practice model (process of improvement by reference to a prior baseline clinical audit. Data will be collected at baseline and, during the first year of follow up, at months (3, 6, 9,12)

Detailed description

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of a model of implementation of evidence-based recommendations, in terms of patient outcomes and healthcare quality. Desing: Quasi-experimental, multicentre, before-and-after. Methods Primary-care and hospital-care units and associated socio-healthcare structures, and the patients attended at both. Intervention: Implementation of evidence-based recommendations by application of the Getting Research into Practice model (process of improvement by reference to a prior baseline clinical audit). Variables: Process and outcome criteria with respect to pain, urinary incontinence and fall prevention. Data will be collected at baseline and, during the first year of follow up, at months (3, 6, 9,12), with data on patients and indicators being drawn from clinical histories and records. Descriptive analysis, and comparison of the effectiveness of the intervention by means of inferential analysis and analysis of trends across follow-up. 95% confidence level. This project is funded by Spanish Strategic Health Action November 2014. Project duration 2015-2017.

Conditions

• Age Problem

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	GRIP (Getting Research into Practice) model	The intervention will consist of the use of the GRIP (Getting Research into Practice) model and implementation of its strategies in clinical practice, according to the study unit in question and the scope of action. The GRIP model is a process of improvement by reference to a prior baseline clinical audit. It implies a local situation analysis, identifying the obstacles to improvements in clinical practice, and drawing up and implementing a plan of action for the purpose of improving adherence to pre-established criteria. The goal is to establish interprofessional processes within the teams, in order to: examine the obstacles that hinder the use of evidence in fostering best practices; and contribute to the development of implementation programmes for overcoming such obstacles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2018-10-31
• Last updated: 2018-10-31