Ontario ICU Clinical Best Practices Demonstration Project

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Restrictive Blood Transfusion Strategy; Daily Spontaeous Breathing Trials; Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections; Pressure Ulcer Prophylaxis; DVT Prophylaxis; Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia

Treatments: Behavioral: Focused knowledge translation strategies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00332982

OCCTKN

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pragmatic issue at hand how to get physicians and nurses to use best practices... and how to measure consequences of their implementation. This is the science of "knowledge translation", which we are realizing is an "organic" entity. As part of our Critical Care Strategy our goal is to improve the quality and continuity of critical care within our health care system. Toward this goal we are implementing a program which links 16 Ontario hospitals through their critical care units in a Provincial Network.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Cohort of hospitals with Intensive Care Units in Ontario

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)