- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04006990
The Bed Rest Avoidance Study (BRAVE)
Hospitalized patients spend the majority of their time lying in bed, even when they are capable of being out of bed. Up to 50% of inpatients suffer functional decline at least in part due to lying in bed after admission, and even those who are not placed on bed rest by their physicians spend an average of 20 out of 24 hours lying in bed. The loss of functional ability and exercise tolerance happens remarkably fast, as early as hospital day 2 (24-48 hours). Functional decline often results in a prolonged hospital stay and the need for additional rehabilitation resources both during and after the hospitalization to return a patient to their baseline functional status. Functional decline has also been associated with excess mortality.
The investigators sought to flip the culture of hospital-based care such that the bed was viewed as a place for patients to sleep, and patients would be encouraged to get out of bed when they were not trying to sleep. The investigators hypothesized that patients were unaware of the risks of prolonged immobilization and that the lack of an alternative comfortable place for patients to sit other than their bed contributed to their immobility. Previous studies have demonstrated that mobility protocols improve patient-centered outcomes in narrow patient populations such as post-surgical patients or the elderly, but such interventions have not been studied in a heterogeneous patient population. Additionally, previously studied protocols have been labor-intensive from a nursing standpoint, requiring, for example, that staff provide one-on-one supervised ambulation 3-4 times per day. The investigators aimed to determine whether establishing a relatively low-intensity, pragmatic protocol to discourage patients from lying in bed would result in shorter length of stay by improving mobility. The investigators further aimed to assess the additional impact of providing a recliner chair, a safe and comfortable alternative to their bed on these outcomes.
This a prospective, controlled investigation of a novel intervention intended to reduce time subjects spent lying in bed. The intervention will be conducted at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center from March 20, 2017 through September 19, 2017. The intervention and control wards are symmetrically laid out. All wards consist of medical/surgical beds without cardiac telemetry monitoring. Subjects will be admitted per clinical routine, with bed assignments made by the bed control department, which was not aware of the study. Handouts developed at a 3rd grade level will inform subjects and their families about the risks of bed rest and encouraged the subjects to only lie in bed when they were attempting to sleep. Handouts are translated into 5 languages (Spanish, Korean, Tagalog, Mandarin, Vietnamese). Nursing staff on the intervention wards will provide these handouts to subjects and their families as part of the standard admission process. In addition, laminated reminder signs identical to the handouts will be posted on the wall opposite the head of the bed. Posters were placed in the main entrance of the study units.
Half of the intervention rooms will also be provided with recliner chairs (Winco Vero Care Cliner) that were bariatrics rated to 500 pounds, vinyl-covered for facile disinfection, and had 180-degree swing arms and locking casters. The other intervention rooms and the control rooms had standard hospital chairs in addition to the hospital bed.
The primary outcome measure is the difference in the length of hospital stay for admissions to intervention rooms compared to control rooms. Subjects' age and gender will be collected in order to control for these factors in the primary analysis. The Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS DRG) relative weight for each patient will be collected to control for illness severity.
As a secondary endpoint, functional status will be assessed using the "6-Clicks" objective functional scoring system. Scores will be measured at several points during the each hospitalization As a process measure, nurses will maintain a log of hours per shift that subjects spend in bed. Finally, as a safety measure, the rates of falls per 1000 patient-days will be collected.
Data will be abstracted using an automated query of the electronic health record's bed management database (Cerner, Kansas City, MO). All patients who are placed on one of the study wards during the intervention period-including those admitted from the emergency department, elective medical and surgical admissions, inter-hospital transfers and intra-hospital transfers-will be included.
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
- LAC USC Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Hospital Inpatient
- Admitted to the LAC+USC study wards during the study period
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age < 18
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention
Subjects are given recliner chairs and education on the dangers of bedrest
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Provision of recliner chairs and encouragement to get out of bed
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No Intervention: Control
Subjects are treated with standard care
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Hospital Length of Stay
Time Frame: 1 year
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1 year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Six Clicks Functional Score
Time Frame: 6 months
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6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Brad Spellberg, MD, LAC+USC Medical Center
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- HS-16-00804
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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