Development of the individualised Comparative Effectiveness of Models Optimizing Patient Safety and Resident Education (iCOMPARE) trial: a protocol summary of a national cluster-randomised trial of resident duty hour policies in internal medicine

Judy A Shea, Jeffrey H Silber, Sanjay V Desai, David F Dinges, Lisa M Bellini, James Tonascia, Alice L Sternberg, Dylan S Small, David M Shade, Joel Thorp Katz, Mathias Basner, Krisda H Chaiyachati, Orit Even-Shoshan, David Westfall Bates, Kevin G Volpp, David A Asch, iCOMPARE Research Group, Judy A Shea, Jeffrey H Silber, Sanjay V Desai, David F Dinges, Lisa M Bellini, James Tonascia, Alice L Sternberg, Dylan S Small, David M Shade, Joel Thorp Katz, Mathias Basner, Krisda H Chaiyachati, Orit Even-Shoshan, David Westfall Bates, Kevin G Volpp, David A Asch, iCOMPARE Research Group

Abstract

Introduction: Medical trainees' duty hours have received attention globally; restrictions in Europe, New Zealand and some Canadian provinces are much lower than the 80 hours per week enforced in USA. In USA, resident duty hours have been implemented without evidence simultaneously reflecting competing concerns about patient safety and physician education. The objective is to prospectively evaluate the implications of alternative resident duty hour rules for patient safety, trainee education and intern sleep and alertness.

Methods and analysis: 63 US internal medicine training programmes were randomly assigned 1:1 to the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident duty hour rules or to rules more flexible in intern shift length and number of hours off between shifts for academic year 2015-2016. The primary outcome is calculated for each programme as the difference in 30-day mortality rate among Medicare beneficiaries with any of several prespecified principal diagnoses in the intervention year minus 30-day mortality in the preintervention year among Medicare beneficiaries with any of several prespecified principal diagnoses. Additional safety outcomes include readmission rates, prolonged length of stay and costs. Measures derived from trainees' and faculty responses to surveys and from time-motion studies of interns compare the educational experiences of residents. Measures derived from wrist actigraphy, subjective ratings and psychomotor vigilance testing compare the sleep and alertness of interns. Differences between duty hour groups in outcomes will be assessed by intention-to-treat analyses.

Ethics and dissemination: The University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved the protocol and served as the IRB of record for 40 programmes that agreed to sign an Institutional Affiliation Agreement. Twenty-three programmes opted for a local review process.

Trial registration number: NCT02274818; Pre-results.

Keywords: duty hours; resident education; resident work hours.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.

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Consort diagram. ACGME, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; IM, internal medicine.
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iCOMPARE trial timeline. ACGME, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; iCOMPARE; individualized Comparative Effectiveness of Models Optimizing Patient Safety and Resident Education; NHLBI, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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