Feedback on Perioperative Temperature Management and Patient Outcomes: Three-arm Trial to Compare Feedback

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute45 enrolled

Overview

The investigators aim to assess the impact of benchmarked and ranked feedback on anesthesiologists' perioperative temperature management and subsequent patient outcomes.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Surgical Site Infections Hypothermia

Interventions

Benchmarked FeedbackBEHAVIORAL

Participants receive data, during the 6 month intervention phase, regarding their monthly temperature management performance in the form of benchmarked feedback, which is the measure of their performance in comparison the standard set by the hospital.

Ranked FeedbackBEHAVIORAL

Participants receive data, during the 6 month intervention phase, regarding their monthly temperature management performance in the form of ranked feedback, which is the measure of their performance in comparison to their peers.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Staff Anesthesiologists at The Ottawa Hospital Exclusion Criteria: * none

Locations (1)

The Ottawa Hospital

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Patient peri-operative temperature

Time frame: Within the 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time.

Secondary Outcomes

Intraoperative warming device usage perioperative

Time frame: intraoperative

Patient post-operative surgical site infection (SSI) rate

Time frame: Within 30 days of surgery

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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