- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04496635
Surveillance and Implementation of a Bundle of Care to Reduce Surgical Site Infection in Colorectal Surgery (CCR-VINCat) (CCR-VINCat)
Evaluation of the Application and Efficacy of Prevention Measures for Surgical Site Infection in Elective Colorectal Surgery.
The Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program in Catalonia (VINCat) monitors surgical site infection (SSI) in elective colorectal surgery since 2007 in 55 public and private acute care hospitals. These hospitals perform active and prospective standardized surveillance of elective colorectal resections. Post-discharge surveillance is mandatory at least up to 30 days after surgery. Hospitals are classified according to their size into three groups: >500 hospital beds; 200-500 beds; <200 beds.
Aim. To examine the effect on SSI rate of a specific preventative bundle in elective colorectal surgery.
Methods. Pragmatic study using VINCat prospective colorectal database from 2007 to 2018. In 2016, a bundle of six preventative measures was recommended to the VINCat hospitals.
To compare the results of SSI before (baseline phase, BP) and after the bundle implementation (implementation phase, IP) a logistic regression model has been established. The results will be shown as Odds Ratio (OR) and the corresponding confidence intervalsCI95. The significance level will be fixed at 5% (P < 0.05).
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Surveillance. The VINCat Program was developed in the 2007 as the Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system in Catalonia, covering a population of seven and a half million people. The system is similar to other international reference programs, such as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and its described in detail on the VINCat website. Hospitals carry out active and prospective standardized surveillance, and are classified according to their number of beds into three groups: group 1 (500 beds); group 2 (200-500 beds); group 3 (200 beds). The staff performing surveillance had received training in the VINCat surveillance methodology to ensure the collection of homogeneous, accurate data.
Surveillance is continued at least for 30 days after the operation. All public and private participating hospitals report data voluntarily and receive feedback once a year.
Monitoring of colorectal surgery is performed prospectively and continued until a minimum of 100 interventions per year is reached in each hospital, although some centres include all their yearly cases. Hospitals with less than 10 interventions per year are excluded. Participating hospitals record the data on an Internet-based database.
Follow-up and post-discharge surveillance. Patients are followed up by trained infection control staff. Active mandatory post-discharge surveillance is performed at least to day 30 post surgery by a multimodal approach including electronic review of clinical records (primary and secondary care), checking readmissions, checking emergency visits, and reviewing microbiological and radiological data.
Development of the colorectal surgical site infection program. In 2015, a multidisciplinary team of nurses and medical specialists from the VINCat Program, and surgeons belonging to the Catalan Society of Surgery was set up to formulate a specific bundle of SSI preventative measures for colorectal surgery. The literature for optimal care during the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases was reviewed, including evidence on oral antibiotic prophylaxis and mechanical bowel preparation. Practices were chosen either by their high levels of scientific evidence or by being considered, by consensus, reasonable, associated with minimal risk, and potentially beneficial.
The working group developed a 6 measures bundle to be voluntary implemented by the participating hospitals. The measures of the bundle are: intravenous and oral antibiotic prophylaxis, mechanical bowel preparation (MBP), laparoscopic surgery, maintenance of normothermia, and the use of a wound retractor.
The intervention began on 1 January 2016, with diffusion of the bundle measures via e-mail, and a workshop addressed to all to the surgical and ICT teams.
Definitions. SSI is defined according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and is stratified into categories of surgical procedures (-1 to 3) according to the risk of surgical infection defined by the NHSN.
Design of the pragmatic trial. Implementation of the bundle precluded randomization. The study compared two phases: baseline (BP), from 2008 to 2015, and implementation (IP), from 2016 to 2018.
Fifty-five of the 66 hospitals participating in the VINCat Program were included in the analysis. Prospective surveillance was performed by the infection control team (ICT) of each hospital to ensure appropriate data collection. The surveillance period lasted from January 2007 to December 2018. During the first 4 years of the program, the results of colon and rectal surgery were aggregated. From 2011, data is separated for each type of surgery.
As all eligible patients were included in the pragmatic design, informed consent was not obtained.
The study was conducted as a performance improvement project and approved by the Ethics in Research Committee.
Statistical analysis Data will be summarized as frequencies and proportions for categorical variables or as medians and interquartile range (IQR) for continuous variables. Infection rates will be expressed as cumulative incidence, that is, the crude percentage of operations resulting in SSI/ number of surgery procedures. Data will be also stratified by year, risk index category, hospital group and SSI type.
To analyse the relationship between two qualitative variables, contingency tables will be used, and the chi-square test or the likelihood ratio test will be performed. The analysis will be completed with grouped bar graphs. To analyse differences in the proportion of infection over the years, the logistic regression model will be performed. The results will be presented in terms of OR or estimated infection rates, with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals. The significance level will be set at 5% in all tests. The results will be analysed using software: Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) v9.4, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, USA.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Gemma Molist, MD, PHD
- Phone Number: +348425000
- Email: gmolist@fphag.org
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Josep M Badia, MD, PhD
- Phone Number: +34670702099
- Email: jmbadiaperez@gmail.com
Study Locations
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Barcelona
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Granollers, Barcelona, Spain, 08402
- Recruiting
- Hospital General de Granollers
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Contact:
- Josep M Badia
- Phone Number: 670702099
- Email: jmbadiaperez@gmail.com
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Colon or rectal elective surgery.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Peritonitis at the time of intervention ("dirty" surgery) Patients who underwent multiple procedures during the same surgery, for example resection of liver metastases Centers that performed less tan 10 surgical procedures annually Centers that have not been able to ensure prospective surveillance during hospitalization or effective monitoring of cases within 30 days of the intervention
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Sequential Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Baseline phase
Patients included in the VINCat program, and operated on colorectal surgery between 2007 and 2015 in Catalonia
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Experimental: Implementation phase
Patients included in the VINCat program, and operated on colorectal surgery between 2016 and 2018 in Catalonia
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Surgical site infection rate
Time Frame: 30 days
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Overall surgical infection rate
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30 days
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Organ/space surgical infection rate
Time Frame: 30 days
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Specific organ/space surgical infection rate
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30 days
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Hospital type-Surgical infection rate
Time Frame: 30 days
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Comparison of rates among the three hospitals groups, according to their size
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30 days
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Analysis (logistic regression model) of the efficacy of each preventive measure
Time Frame: 30 days
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Univariate and multivariate logistic regression to analise the efficacy of each individual measure belonging to the bundle of care.
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30 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Josep M Badia-Perez, MD, PhD, Fundació Hospital General de Granollers
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
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
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- CCR-VINCat 1
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
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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