This is a quality improvement research project evaluating if a targeted feedback email to clinicians impacts their nutrition delivery in the ICU.
This prospective study looks to determine if a targeted email to clinicians taking care of critically ill patients will allow reduce malnutrition in the Intensive Care Units (ICU). Four ICUs will be included: medical ICU (MICU), coronary care unit (CCU) and two surgical ICUs. The investigators will rotate a 2 month period intervention amongst the aforementioned participating ICUs and follow simultaneous cohorts to evaluate the effect of our intervention (email feedback to treating clinicians) on nutrition delivery in the ICU. After the completion of the intervention, there will be a six-month follow-up of nutritional adequacy to assess the durability of changes in behavior.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
197
Patients started on nutrition within 72 h of ICU admission
The ICU admission date and EN initiation date will be collected in a data base which will later be analyzed to assess the percentange of patients initiated on EN within 72 hours of admission to the ICU. This will be reported as rates and will be compared amongst intervention and no-intervention arms using Fisher's Exact test or Chi-sq Test
Time frame: After completing the intervention for each ICU (2 months)
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