Early Reassessment of Intravenous Antiinfective Therapy Due to "Antiinfective Reminders" (AIR Study)

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infection as Complication of Medical Care

Treatments: Other: electronic reminders

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01499927

FZMI-KEK-ZH-Nr. 2010-0457

Details and patient eligibility

About

Switching from intravenous application of antiinfective agents to oral therapy is often performed late including high costs and risk of complications. This study will investigate the impact of displayed reminders in the electronic patient chart after 60h of intravenous therapy with an antiinfective agent.

Full description

Switching from intravenous application of antiinfective agents to oral therapy is often performed late including high costs, risk of complications as well as higher workload on nursing. This study will investigate the impact of displayed reminders in the electronic patient chart after 60h of intravenous therapy with an antiinfective agent.

Enrollment: 74,766 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all in-patients in treatment with an intravenous antiinfective for >60h,
• hospitalized in a ward with computerized physician order entry (cpoe)

Exclusion criteria

• outpatients,
• ward without cpoe,
• no intravenous antiinfective treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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74,766 participants in 2 patient groups

electronic reminders

Active Comparator group

Description:

Behavioral: Early switching from intravenous to oral antiinfective agents due to electronic reminders

Treatment:

Other: electronic reminders

no electronic reminders

No Intervention group

Description:

Behavioral: Early switching from intravenous to oral antiinfective agents without computerized decision support