Stopped: Participants were not assigned to an intervention and as such this was not considered a clinical trial.
There is a fundamental gap between the discovery of proven-effective intensive care unit (ICU) sedation, mechanical ventilation, mobility, and symptom management strategies and approaches that can equip ICU providers with the skills necessary to reliably adopt these interventions in everyday practice. Until this gap is filled, the millions of patients with heart, lung, and blood disorders admitted to ICUs annually will remain at risk for avoidable physical, mental, and cognitive health impairments that may persist for months to years after hospital discharge. In the proposed study, the investigative team will continue their partnership with the Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM's) ICU Liberation Collaborative. Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, the overall objective of the Determinants of Implementation Success Coordinating Ventilator, Early Ambulation and Rehabilitation Efforts in the ICU (DISCOVER-ICU) study is to develop multilevel implementation strategies to enhance sustainable adoption of the ABCDEF (Assess, prevent, and manage pain and delirium, both spontaneous awakening and breathing trials, choice of sedation, early mobility, family engagement) bundle in routine ICU practice. Using a multiphase, sequential, mixed-methods design, this study has three specific aims: 1) estimate the effects of patient-level characteristics on ABCDEF bundle adoption; 2) examine unit-level variation in ABCDEF bundle adoption and associated provider- and organization-level characteristics; and 3) determine which implementation strategies result in the greatest adoption of the ABCDEF bundle. Existing deidentified data will be obtained from \>15,000 patients, \>5,000 interprofessional ICU team members, and 68 hospitals participating in the ICU Liberation Collaborative to achieve specific aims 1 and 2. For specific aim 3, data collection will be extended using interprofessional ICU team surveys, a modified Delphi process, and concept mapping to achieve greater understanding of implementation strategies that prove most effective for ABCDEF bundle adoption. Results of this work will directly lead to the development of implementation strategies that are adaptable, responsive to community needs, and account for the cultural and organizational factors necessary to increase ABCDEF bundle adoption. These implementation strategies will then be tested in a future cluster randomized hybrid II implementation effectiveness trial.
Age range
18 Years – 100 Years
Sex
ALL
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ABCDEF bundle performance
Timeframe: 2 years