The Effect of Intensive Inpatient Attending Supervision on Medical Errors, Patient Safety and Resident Education
18 de octubre de 2017 actualizado por: Kathleen Finn, Massachusetts General Hospital
Randomized cross over trial investigating the effect of intensive attending supervision of residents caring for inpatients on the medical service on both patient safety and educational outcomes.
Hypothesis: increased attending supervision would improve patient safety and resident education.
Descripción general del estudio
Estado
Terminado
Intervención / Tratamiento
Descripción detallada
Background While the relationship between resident work hours and patient safety has been extensively studied, little research has evaluated the role of attending supervision on patient safety and education.
Investigators conducted a 9-month randomized, cross-over trial on an inpatient medicine teaching service where 22 faculty provided either: 1) direct supervision where attendings joined work rounds on established (previously admitted) patients or 2) standard supervision where attendings were available, but did not join work rounds. Each faculty member participated in both arms in random order. The primary safety outcome was rate of medical errors. Secondary safety outcomes included deaths and transfers to the intensive care unit. Resident education was evaluated via a time motion study to assess resident participation on rounds and surveys to measure resident and attending educational ratings.
Tipo de estudio
Intervencionista
Inscripción (Actual)
134
Fase
- No aplica
Criterios de participación
Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.
Criterio de elegibilidad
Edades elegibles para estudiar
18 años y mayores (Adulto, Adulto Mayor)
Acepta Voluntarios Saludables
No
Géneros elegibles para el estudio
Todos
Descripción
Inclusion Criteria
- Teaching attending on the medicine service at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Resident physician on the medical service at Massachusetts General Hospital
Exclusion Criteria
- Faculty unable to complete both control and intervention arms of the study.
- Faculty unwilling to participate
- Residents unwilling to participate
Plan de estudios
Esta sección proporciona detalles del plan de estudio, incluido cómo está diseñado el estudio y qué mide el estudio.
¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?
Detalles de diseño
- Propósito principal: Otro
- Asignación: Aleatorizado
- Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación cruzada
- Enmascaramiento: Ninguno (etiqueta abierta)
Armas e Intervenciones
Grupo de participantes/brazo |
Intervención / Tratamiento |
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Comparador activo: Intervention Arm
Attendings on the interventional arm attended daily work rounds with the resident teams in addition to established work rounds on the previously admitted patients on the care team.
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Attendings were randomized at the start of the study to begin in the enhanced supervision arm where they attended resident work rounds.
They then crossed over to the control arm where they did not attend work rounds.
The outcomes were assessed between the two periods during which the attending participated in the study; attending work rounds vs. not attending work rounds.
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Comparador de placebos: Control Arm
Attendings crossed over to the control arm in which they did not attend work rounds with the team and only say new admissions with the resident team.
This was usual care.
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Attendings participated directly in new patient rounds but did not see patients previously known to the team with the residents.
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
Medida de resultado |
Medida Descripción |
Periodo de tiempo |
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Measurement of the rate of medical errors defined as preventable adverse events and near misses. Patient Safety Outcome
Periodo de tiempo: 9 months
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Using a previously validated protocol (PMID:24871238) to assess these outcomes, five research nurses reviewed the medical records, formal incident reports from the hospital incident-reporting system, daily pharmacy reports, pharmacy paging logs and solicited reports from nurses working on the study units and noted any adverse events or near misses.
Four physician investigators, blinded to attending and intervention, classified each suspected incident as an adverse event, near miss or exclusion (an incident determined to be neither a medical error or adverse event).
Physician reviewers further classified all adverse events as preventable or non-preventable.
Medical Error rates are reports as number of events per 1,000 patient days
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9 months
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Resident Engagement on Rounds: Educational Outcome
Periodo de tiempo: 9 months
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Time motion study of the amount of time residents and faculty speak during rounds.
Time was measured by a research assistant using a Microsoft access program embedded on an IPAD that recorded length of time.
Time measurement outcomes are reported in minutes
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9 months
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Medidas de resultado secundarias
Medida de resultado |
Medida Descripción |
Periodo de tiempo |
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Resident and Faculty Perception of Education, Educational Outcome
Periodo de tiempo: 9 months
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A 20 question survey based on prior literature (PMID: 25340363) asking about resident and faculty experience with different levels of faculty supervision.
The survey questions each were followed by a 5 point scale with a range from strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree to strongly disagree.
Strongly agree represents a better outcome.
There were no subscales.
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9 months
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Deaths, Patient Safety Outcome
Periodo de tiempo: 9 months
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Hospital collected data on the number of medical patients who died during the study
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9 months
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Transfers to the Intensive Care Unit, Patient Safety Outcome
Periodo de tiempo: 9 months
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Hospital collected data on the number of medical patients who were transferred to the intensive care unit
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9 months
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Aquí es donde encontrará personas y organizaciones involucradas en este estudio.
Patrocinador
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Kathleen Finn, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Publicaciones y enlaces útiles
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Publicaciones Generales
- Biondi EA, Varade WS, Garfunkel LC, Lynn JF, Craig MS, Cellini MM, Shone LP, Harris JP, Baldwin CD. Discordance between resident and faculty perceptions of resident autonomy: can self-determination theory help interpret differences and guide strategies for bridging the divide? Acad Med. 2015 Apr;90(4):462-71. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000522.
- Starmer AJ, O'Toole JK, Rosenbluth G, Calaman S, Balmer D, West DC, Bale JF Jr, Yu CE, Noble EL, Tse LL, Srivastava R, Landrigan CP, Sectish TC, Spector ND; I-PASS Study Education Executive Committee. Development, implementation, and dissemination of the I-PASS handoff curriculum: A multisite educational intervention to improve patient handoffs. Acad Med. 2014 Jun;89(6):876-84. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000264.
- Finn KM, Metlay JP, Chang Y, Nagarur A, Yang S, Landrigan CP, Iyasere C. Effect of Increased Inpatient Attending Physician Supervision on Medical Errors, Patient Safety, and Resident Education: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jul 1;178(7):952-959. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1244.
Fechas de registro del estudio
Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.
Fechas importantes del estudio
Inicio del estudio (Actual)
1 de septiembre de 2015
Finalización primaria (Actual)
1 de junio de 2016
Finalización del estudio (Actual)
1 de abril de 2017
Fechas de registro del estudio
Enviado por primera vez
16 de octubre de 2017
Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
18 de octubre de 2017
Publicado por primera vez (Actual)
23 de octubre de 2017
Actualizaciones de registros de estudio
Última actualización publicada (Actual)
23 de octubre de 2017
Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
18 de octubre de 2017
Última verificación
1 de octubre de 2017
Más información
Términos relacionados con este estudio
Palabras clave
Otros números de identificación del estudio
- 2015D005158
Plan de datos de participantes individuales (IPD)
¿Planea compartir datos de participantes individuales (IPD)?
NO
Descripción del plan IPD
The data and results from the study are listed to the research personnel associated with the study.
Información sobre medicamentos y dispositivos, documentos del estudio
Estudia un producto farmacéutico regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.
No
Estudia un producto de dispositivo regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.
No
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