- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01260831
Evaluating Processes of Care & the Outcomes of Children in Hospital (EPOCH) (EPOCH)
Evaluating Processes of Care & the Outcomes of Children in Hospital (EPOCH): a Cluster Randomized Trial of the Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Brussels, Belgium
- HUDERF: Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital
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Quebec, Canada
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ)
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Alberta
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Children'S Hospital
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Stollery Children's Hospital
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British Columbia
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, L6X0R1
- Victoria General Hospital
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New Brunswick
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Saint John Regional Hospital
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Nova Scotia
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- IWK Health Centre
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Ontario
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster Children's Hospital
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London, Ontario, Canada
- London Health Sciences Center University Hospital
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Hospital for Sick Children
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Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada, L6X0R1
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada, L6X0R1
- Montreal Children's Hospital
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Dublin, Ireland
- Our Lady's Children's Hospital
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Dublin, Ireland
- Children's University Hospital
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Rome, Italy
- Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Erasmus MC-Sophia
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Auckland, New Zealand
- Starship Children's Health
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London, United Kingdom
- Kings College Hospital
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London, United Kingdom
- Royal Brompton Hospital
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London, United Kingdom
- St. George's Hospital
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London, United Kingdom
- Barts Health - The London NHS Trust
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London, United Kingdom
- St. Mary's Hospital - Imperial College Healthcare
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
For Hospitals:
- provide care for more than 200 inpatient admissions aged <18 years and >37 weeks gestational age in eligible inpatient wards each year
- have specialised paediatric physicians (including paediatricians, paediatric surgeons, other paediatric sub-specialists) and, one or more intensive care unit (PICU) that provides care for children. A PICU is a designated, staffed area for prolonged mechanical ventilation, invasive monitoring and circulatory support for children- including but not limited to neonates. Other areas designated for patients of increased acuity, such as 'constant observation' or 'high dependency' or 'step-down' units will be regarded as part of the PICU where the PICU staff physicians are wholly or jointly responsible for the care of children in these areas (can write orders in the chart).
- may or may not have a MET-RRT for children. A MET-RRT is defined as an identified team of one or more trained healthcare professionals who report to an on service PICU physician, and perform urgent consultations on hospital inpatients.
For inpatient wards:
- areas where care is provided to patients who are admitted to the hospital, other than PICU, operating rooms, and other designated areas where anaesthetist-supervised procedures are performed. All eligible inpatient wards will participate in the study.
For patients:
Within eligible hospitals we will study patients older than 37 weeks gestational age and less than 18 years who are admitted to eligible inpatient wards, who receive care in an eligible inpatient area during the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
For hospitals:
- have plans to introduce a new 'medical emergency team' during the study, and where a severity of illness score (Brighton, Cardiff, PEWS, Bedside PEWS or other unpublished score) is used in ward areas
- hospitals where randomization is not deemed acceptable. These exclusion criteria ensure that major system changes including introduction of MET-RRT, new documentation systems, physician staffing, and hospital capacity will not bias results.
For patients:
- those who are less than 37 weeks gestational age throughout their hospitalization
- are cared for exclusively in an NICU
- children who are admitted directly to a PICU and die before PICU discharge and thus have not received care in an eligible inpatient ward
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention Hospitals
hospitals randomized to implement bedsidePEWS documentation system (vital sign assessment record)
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The Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System (Bedside PEWS) is a documentation-based system of care that will replace existing documentation systems for vital signs in inpatient ward areas in hospitals randomized to implement Bedside-PEWS.
Frontline staff education within each hospital will occur over a period of three months preceding a 5 week run-in implementation phase, which will be followed by hospital-wide implementation.
The Bedside-PEWS documentation record will become the primary method of documentation for vital signs and related data.
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Active Comparator: Control Hospitals
hospitals randomized to continue with their pre existing documentation system (vital sign assessment record)
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Hospitals randomized to standard care will continue with established methods of care.
This will include the use of calling criteria and/or the expert model to identify children at risk.
As in intervention hospitals, existing MET-RRT practices, established staffing and documentation practices will continue.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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All Cause Hospital Mortality (Intervention Phase)
Time Frame: for 52 weeks starting at Week 31
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All cause hospital mortality includes all deaths of eligible inpatients who were cared for in an eligible inpatient ward and will be prospectively assessed for 52 weeks following the 5-week run in period at intervention hospitals. The following sub-group analyses will be performed: [1] Hospital size. Hospitals with >200 eligible inpatient ward beds will be one group and those with <200 eligible inpatient ward beds the other. [2] Hospitals with and without medical emergency teams. [3] Hospitals with ECMO for children. [4] patients with urgent PICU admission initiated in an inpatient ward. |
for 52 weeks starting at Week 31
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of Significant Clinical Deterioration Events
Time Frame: for 26 weeks starting at Week 0 (baseline) and for 52 weeks starting at week 31 (intervention)
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This will be defined as the provision of significant respiratory or circulatory therapies or cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the 12 hours before transfer from inpatient ward, or death without DNR order in an inpatient ward. The following sub-group analyses will be performed: [1] Hospital size. Hospitals with >200 eligible inpatient ward beds will be one group and those with <200 eligible inpatient ward beds the other. [2] Hospitals with and without medical emergency teams. [3] Hospitals with ECMO for children. [4] patients with urgent PICU admission initiated in an inpatient ward. |
for 26 weeks starting at Week 0 (baseline) and for 52 weeks starting at week 31 (intervention)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Christopher Parshuram, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Study Chair: Patricia Parkin, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Study Chair: James Hutchison, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Study Chair: Catherine Farrell, Sainte Justine's Hospital
- Study Chair: Martin Gray, St. George's Health Care NHS Trust
- Study Chair: Ronald Gottesman, Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC
- Study Chair: Mark Helfaer, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Study Chair: Elizabeth Hunt, Johns Hopkins University
- Study Chair: Ari Joffe, Stollery Children's Hospital
- Study Chair: Jacques LaCroix, Sainte Justine's Hospital
- Study Chair: Vinay Nadkarni, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Study Chair: David Wensley, Provincial Health Services Authority
- Study Chair: Andrew Willan, The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Parshuram CS, Dryden-Palmer K, Farrell C, Gottesman R, Gray M, Hutchison JS, Helfaer M, Hunt EA, Joffe AR, Lacroix J, Moga MA, Nadkarni V, Ninis N, Parkin PC, Wensley D, Willan AR, Tomlinson GA; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the EPOCH Investigators. Effect of a Pediatric Early Warning System on All-Cause Mortality in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: The EPOCH Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2018 Mar 13;319(10):1002-1012. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.0948.
- Parshuram CS, Dryden-Palmer K, Farrell C, Gottesman R, Gray M, Hutchison JS, Helfaer M, Hunt E, Joffe A, Lacroix J, Nadkarni V, Parkin P, Wensley D, Willan AR; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Evaluating processes of care and outcomes of children in hospital (EPOCH): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2015 Jun 2;16:245. doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-0712-3.
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Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 1000018562
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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