Comparison of Tele-Critical Care Versus Usual Care On ICU Performance (TELESCOPE) — TELESCOPE  

Critical Care Clinical Trial

Official title: Comparison of Tele-Critical Care Versus Usual Care On ICU Performance: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

TELESCOPE will be a cluster randomized clinical trial to ascertain whether the use of an intervention including multidisciplinary round with a board certified physician through tele-critical care and periodic meetings to discuss strategies to improve quality indicators can reduce ICU length of stay of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).

Clinical Trial Description

Cluster randomized trial involving ICUs in Brazil. ICU is the unit of randomization.

The trial will have two stages:

Stage I - Baseline data:

• Characterize participant ICUs and quality indicators

• Characterize patients from each participant ICU to describe baseline outcomes

Stage II - Intervention:

This is the main stage for data analysis. ICUs will be randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The experimental group should use a multidisciplinary rounds with a board certified physician through tele-critical care and take part in meetings to discuss how to improve local quality indicators, and the control group will follow the local standard of care. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Critical Care
• Intensive Care Unit

• NCT number: NCT03920501
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 5, 2019
• Completion date: December 31, 2021