Improving Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- End date
- Sep 30, 2021
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- participants needed
- 700
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- sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Summary
To improve the safety of diagnosis and therapy for a set of conditions and undifferentiated symptoms for hospitalized patients, the investigators will employ a set of methods and tools from the disciplines of systems engineering, human factors, quality improvement,and data analytics to thoroughly analyze the problem, design and develop potential solutions that leverage existing current technological infrastructure, and implement and evaluate the final interventions. The investigators will engage the interdisciplinary care team and patient (or their caregivers) to ensure treatment trajectories match the anticipated course for working diagnoses (or symptoms), and whether they are in line with patient and clinician expectations. The investigators will use an Interrupted time series (ITS) design to assess impact on diagnostic errors that lead to patient harm. The investigators will perform quantitative and qualitative evaluations using implementation science principles to understand if the interventions worked, and why or why not.
Description
The goal of this study is to improve the safety of diagnosis and therapy for a set of conditions and undifferentiated symptoms for hospitalized patients. The investigators will employ a set of methods and tools from the disciplines of systems engineering, human factors, quality improvement, and implementation science to thoroughly analyze the problem, design and develop potential solutions that leverage the current technological infrastructure, and implement and evaluate the final interventions.
The aims of this study are to:
- Analyze the problem of diagnostic error over the acute episode of care, identifying system and cognitive factors for a set of morbid, costly common conditions and undifferentiated symptoms by using system engineering and human factors methods, as well as electronic health record and administrative data review.
- Design, develop, and iteratively refine intervention components using lessons learned from problem analysis and a participatory process that involves patients, clinicians, and institutional stakeholders.
- Implement an intervention for patient and clinician subjects on general medicine units. Using a pre-post, interrupted time series study design, the investigators will evaluate the effect of the intervention primarily on diagnostic and therapeutic errors. The investigators will use mixed methods to understand barriers and facilitators of implementation.
Details
| Condition | Pulmonary Disease, Chest Pain, Venous Thrombosis, Delirium, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, SOFT TISSUE INFECTION, Back Pain, Confusion, Hypoxia, Vomiting, Syncope, CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE, Venous Thromboembolism, Nutritional marasmus, Septicemia, Failure to Thrive, Upper respiratory infection, Dyspnea, Cough, Headache, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Pulmonary Embolism, skin infection, Cellulitis, Fever, Neck Pain, Pain, Thromboembolism, Thrombosis, Abdominal Pain, Asthenia, Asthma, Fatigue, Chronic Back Pain, Blood Clots, Allergies & Asthma, Skin Infections/Disorders, Chronic Cough, Throat and Tonsil Infections, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Sepsis and Septicemia, Dermatomyositis (Connective Tissue Disease), Post-Surgical Pain, Asthma (Pediatric), Recurrent Diarrhea, Pain (Pediatric), Reactive Airway Disease, Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea, Pneumonia (Pediatric), Leg Pain, Hip Pain Chronic, Connective Tissue Diseases, Lung Disease, Headaches, Soft Tissue Infections, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Mental Status Change, Electrolyte Metabolism Abnormal, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumoniae, pneumonitis, lung inflammation, breathlessness, shortness of breath, breathing difficulty, difficulty breathing, breathless, trouble breathing, respiratory difficulties, breathing difficulties, pain chest, fainting, falls out, faint, deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity, diarrhoea, loose stools, systemic infection, systemic infections, asthmatic, bronchial asthma, weakness, weak, strength loss, loss of strength, deep venous thrombosis, lower limb pain, vomit, pyrexia, hyperthermia, fevers, coughing, hypoxic, confused, disorientation, COPD, lung embolism, backpain, backache, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), growth failure, protein-calorie malnutrition, sepsis, sepsis syndrome |
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| Treatment | Diagnostic Uncertainty Educational Curriculum, Diagnostic Timeout, Patient Diagnostic (Dx) Questionnaire, Enhancements to Epic-integrated Quality & Safety Dashboard |
| Clinical Study Identifier | NCT04393909 |
| Sponsor | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Last Modified on | 25 January 2021 |
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