Status:
COMPLETED
24 Hour Intensivist Coverage in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Conditions:
Critically Ill
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Medical ICU (MICU) is implementing a model of 24-hour intensivist staffing in September 2011. Funds and resources are not available to cover the entire...
Detailed Description
Available evidence suggests that intensivist management of critically ill patients improves patient outcome, suggesting that greater intensivist coverage might be better still. However, the effects of...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients, 18 years and older, who are admitted to the HUP MICU during the 12-month study period will be included in the study.
Exclusion
- No patients who meet these inclusion criteria will be excluded from this study.
- For patients admitted more than once to the MICU during the same hospitalization, we will include only their first admission to the MICU for all analyses.
- Subjects under 18 are very rarely seen at the HUP MICU because they are generally treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
- In the rare event that a subject under the age of 18 receives care in the MICU his or her data will be excluded from this study.
- For the Intensivist Sleep and Work sub-study looking at sleep, work hours, and attention of Daytime Intensivists during their MICU rotations:
- All University of Pennsylvania faculty members and fellows from the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care will be eligible for inclusion in the study if they rotate through the MICU during the study period (January, 2012 through December, 2012).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
1609 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01434823
Start Date
September 1 2011
End Date
December 1 2012
Last Update
May 29 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104