NCT03904524

SET-to-Meet; Pilot Testing of a Nurse-led Intervention

SET-to-Meet; Pilot Testing of a Nurse-led Intervention to Ensure Routine Interdisciplinary Family Meetings in ICUs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

While interdisciplinary family meetings are evidence-based and part of usual care, this study seeks to test a novel set of implementation strategies (the SET-to-Meet intervention) to improve adherence to best practice guidelines for interdisciplinary family meetings. SET stands for Screen-Engage-Track; SET-to Meet is a nurse-led, team based intervention to ensure routine interdisciplinary family meetings are held on behalf of incapacitated, critically-ill patients in ICUs. This study is a feasibility and acceptability pilot test of the intervention.

Detailed description

The intervention components are: a protocol for interdisciplinary family meetings that is tailored to the individual ICU unit and steps in the SET-to-Meet process: 1.) Screening of patients on admission to determine if patient meets criteria for a family meeting; 2.) proactively Engaging family members to inform them about the unit's protocol for family meetings and to find out who from the family might attend the meeting; and Tracking the progress of setting up the meeting (identifying the patient during ICU team rounds as a patient meeting criteria for a family meeting; discussing setting up the meeting with the ICU team; scheduling the meeting and communicating details to attendees.) Implementation of the intervention includes: 1.) Working with the site ICU physician and nursing leadership to tailor the SET-to-meet protocol and tracking tool for family meetings, ensuring they are customized for the unit workflow and staffing model, and 2.) Providing on-line training and 2 weeks of on-site coaching to ICU nursing staff, care management/social work staff, and intensivists (MD and APP) in the use of the tailored protocol and tracking tool. Feasibility and acceptability will be assessed by percentage of staff completing training, adherence to elements of the intervention, and number of patients meeting enrollment criteria. Acceptability will be assessed via focus groups and a survey testing satisfaction with the intervention.

Conditions

• Critical Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SET-to-Meet	The overall objective of this study is to pilot test, in advance of a larger randomized trial, a scalable, nurse-led intervention to ensure timely interdisciplinary family meetings are held on behalf of critically-ill ICU patients who cannot participate in discussions about their care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-13
• Primary completion: 2020-08-05
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2019-04-05
• Last updated: 2024-05-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States