The Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coma; Shock; Respiratory Failure; Trauma; Critical Illness; Bleeding; Sepsis

Treatments: Other: Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01973829

12-007998

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to test whether the health care provider access and training in CERTAIN (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness), would facilitate timely and error free best-practice delivery and minimize preventable death and costly complications in critically ill patients.

Enrollment: 5,215 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion:

All adult (≥ 18 years) patients admitted for the first time to the participating ICUs will be included.

Exclusion:

Not critically Ill, admitted for low risk monitoring, planned ICU admissions for routine postoperative surveillance for less than 24 hours after uncomplicated surgery, readmission and transferred from outside ICU.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5,215 participants in 1 patient group

Baseline arm

Other group

Description:

baseline data (50 patients or 3 months per center)

Treatment:

Other: Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)