Ontario ICU Clinical Best Practices Demonstration Project

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

ECT

Masking

NONE

Conditions

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

Interventions

Focused knowledge translation strategiesBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Cohort of hospitals with Intensive Care Units in Ontario

Locations (1)

Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Relative risk of receiving best practices in the ICU.

Secondary Outcomes

ICU length of stay

Barriers to best practice use in the ICU

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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