[PDF] Top 20 A cluster randomized trial of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Brazilian intensive care units: study protocol

... Our study has several design features that merit atten- ...a cluster randomized design, which limits selection bias and the effects of secular ...the multifaceted interven- tion of the ... See full document

... previous study using the IPREA questionnaire for pa- tient discomforts assessment has shown that most of the identified discomforts may be relatively easily relieved by interventions conducted by the ICU ... See full document

... were randomized to the inter- vention arm of the trial that received a reciprocal peer- review and a control arm that continued to undertake COPD service development within normal ...of quality ... See full document

... to quality improvement because of the multi- disciplinary approach to care, heterogeneous patient pop- ulations, and the focus on patients defined by geographical location in the hospital rather than ... See full document

... psycho-educational intervention with three main com- ponents: (1) information sharing (during one-to-one re- lational communications and bedside rounds), (2) parent education (one-to-one and group sessions) ... See full document

... NICU care in China has been justified because of concerns over infection control and for con- venient patient management by medical ...of care to go unchallenged, but is not based on any medical ...neonatal ... See full document

... This study is initiated to evaluate the effects, costs, and feasibility at the hospital and patient level of an evidence-based strategy to improve the use of Dutch perioperative safety ...a multifaceted ... See full document

... our study, only ICUs that par- ticipate in the NICE registry, are capable of submitting indicator data, and agree to allocate resources to establish a local QI team will be eligible for ...both study arms ... See full document

... critical care re- sources and they are associated with clinical ...outcomes. Improvement of the adherence to guideline-based stan- dards on these organizational issues in critical care was studied ... See full document

... The most developed evidence base is in relation to anger. Anger is a frequent problem for many people with learning disabilities. Although anger can exist without being expressed aggressively, anger in people with learn- ... See full document

... an intervention to improve one or two pre-defined ...an intervention to change a single practice as the circumstances surrounding that practice can be more clearly ...biomedical intervention trials ... See full document

... the study has a cluster randomized design, longitudinal multilevel analysis (linear mixed modeling with random intercepts at both team level and individual level) is the analysis method of ...the ... See full document

... our study design, the main being the relatively small number of environmental isolates ...health care personnel was sampled only twice, which may not have been a sufficiently sensitive method to exclude ... See full document

... the multifaceted intervention on parent-reported mean earache score over the first 3 days using a linear mixed ...for cluster randomisation and a residual covariance ...between study groups ... See full document

... The CDSS is novel in the sense that it combines all of the following: it is not interruptive; chooses for a critiquing or consulting mode per rule; allows for framing advices in two styles; provides color-coded messages ... See full document

... ICA study (see SdeL) NJ Funding: Grants (DoH and BLF) ABLE – £92,182 Type 2 Diabetes – £248,155 Beliefs and attitudes to organ donation – £203,464 Ethnic differences in end of life care – £44,9141 Community ... See full document

... Health Care) assessed every 3 months; and c) resting metabolic rate evaluated by in- direct calorimetry (Meta Check 7100, Metabolic Rate Analysis System, KOOR) at baseline and 6 ... See full document

... Continued progress toward Sustainable Development Goals in both health and access to clear modern energy will require that all women deliver in facilities with reli- able electricity [21]. However, expanding large power ... See full document

... A larger number of depressed students could probably be accessed if supportive interventions were provided closer to school. Schools are optimal places for such purposes as they provide access to all children, including ... See full document

... multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Standard policy for the majority of children in North American and European hospitals is to dispense the oldest RBC unit available in the blood bank [1, 2]. While this approach ... See full document