Reducing Length of Stay for Veterans Hospitalized With Pneumonia
調査の概要
詳細な説明
Pneumonia is the 3rd leading medical discharge diagnosis in the VA, and although significant attention has been focused improving pneumonia process of care measures less attention has been paid to resource use, specifically length of hospital stay (LOS). Based on our preliminary analyses LOS is considerably higher in the VA versus other non-federal hospitals. Major causes of this increased length of stay are delayed conversion from intravenous (IV) to oral therapy upon reaching clinical stability, and not discharging on the same day as the conversion to oral antibiotics. Therefore additional interventions are needed to decrease the LOS for veterans hospitalized with pneumonia in the VA system.
The long-term goal of this research is to develop sustainable approaches to reduce LOS and thereby improve efficiency of care in veterans admitted with pneumonia to VA Medical Centers through the implementation of computerized clinical stability reminders. Although prior research, including our own, has demonstrated moderate effectiveness of resource intense methods to implement this criteria (e.g., utilization management nurses) new, more effective and less resource intense, strategies are needed to accomplish this long-term goal. The design of the computerized clinical stability reminder, the likely range in magnitude of response to implementation of the intervention, logistics of data collection, data management, and development of study instruments are needed prior to commencement of a more definitive, multi-center study. Hence, we are seeking funding to conduct the necessary pilot work needed to successfully design and implement a large multi-center randomized intervention study to reduce LOS for veterans with pneumonia.
Our objectives include: 1) Develop and perform a local pilot implementation of an inpatient clinical reminder within Computerized Patient Record System to identify when veterans hospitalized with pneumonia are clinically stable and ready for conversion form IV to oral antibiotic therapy and hospital discharge. 2) Test measures of the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in VA medicine ward physicians and determine if they correlate with intention and discharge behavior. 3) Establish a collaborative of VA Medical Centers for the purpose of developing a larger scale implementation study to use evidence-based criteria to reduce LOS for patients hospitalized with pneumonia. 4) Prepare a VA HSR&D IIR grant proposal for a cluster randomized controlled trial of a clinical reminder intervention to reduce length of hospital stay among veterans hospitalized with pneumonia.
The proposed pilot study will develop and implement a computerized-based inpatient clinical reminder to assist physicians with appropriate conversion from IV to oral antibiotics and discharge on the same day for veterans hospitalized with pneumonia. In addition to creating and implementing the clinical reminder at single tertiary care VA teaching hospital, we will examine physician attitudes and potential barriers/facilitators to the introduction of inpatient clinical reminders using the theoretical model of TPB. We will also assemble a cohort of VA medical centers with investigators and chiefs of medical staff willing to participate in a multi-center randomized control trial of this intervention. The results from this pilot study will be used to plan a larger, more definitive multi-center trial of this inpatient clinical reminder with the goal of significantly reducing LOS for veterans hospitalized with pneumonia in the VA health care system.
研究の種類
入学 (実際)
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究場所
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Texas
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San Antonio、Texas、アメリカ、78229
- South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient hospitalized with outpatient-acquired pneumonia at South Texas Veterans Health Care System during study period.
Exclusion Criteria:
none
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的:ヘルスサービス研究
- 割り当て:非ランダム化
- 介入モデル:単一グループの割り当て
- マスキング:なし(オープンラベル)
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
介入・治療 |
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介入なし:Arm 1
pre-implementation of computer based intervention
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実験的:Arm 2
post-implementation of computer based length of stay clinical reminder
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computer based reminder to change patients from IV to oral antibiotics based on evidence based clinical practice guidelines
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
時間枠 |
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Length of Hospital Stay
時間枠:1 month
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1 month
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二次結果の測定
結果測定 |
時間枠 |
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Time to Change to Oral Antibiotics
時間枠:1 month
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1 month
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協力者と研究者
捜査官
- 主任研究者:Eric Michael Mortensen, MD MSc BA、South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
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