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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00466297
Other study ID # Health Canada 102117
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received April 25, 2007
Last updated February 6, 2009
Start date April 2007
Est. completion date December 2008

Study information

Verified date April 2007
Source Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Canada: Health Canada
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Collaborative practice may improve patient outcomes in specific disease conditions and health care settings. The SCRIPT Programme is an intervention to implement informal, but structured, communication etiquette between members of interprofessional ward-based clinical teaching units (CTUs) in General Internal Medicine (GIM) hospital divisions.


Description:

A recent literature review commissioned by Health Canada for the Inter-Professional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice initiative (IECPCP) reported evidence that collaborative practice improves patient outcomes in specific populations. Interprofessional collaborative teaching and practicing are poorly articulated in the literature, however. Studies are needed that can develop a trial-based body of evidence to support education and practice of effective interprofessional care.

The SCRIPT project will attempt to develop sustainable transformation in the conduct, learning and evaluation of interprofessional teamwork in the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN). SCRIPT has investigated interprofessional work relations in general internal medicine units at TAHSN hospitals using fieldwork observations and interview methods. These data were foundational for SCRIPT's design of a unit-based staff intervention intended to promote more--and more-effective--informal interprofessional communication and collaboration between GIM staff members outside of traditional, structured meeting times like morning report and bullet rounds.

The intervention is designed as part of a pragmatic trial. We will ask GIM division staff of intervention teams to implement a 4-step communication protocol in face-to-face, patient-related interaction. The steps are:

1. introduce oneself by name;

2. state one's role or responsibility in relation to the patient under discussion;

3. describe the issue, problem, or plan relating to the target patient;

4. elicit feedback from the other participant(s) in the interaction with a prompt, e.g., "do you have any concerns," or, "is there something else I should consider?"

The intervention will be evaluated as a cluster randomized controlled trial among five large Toronto (Canada) teaching hospitals. Two medical clinical teaching units and associated ward teams of nurses and other health professionals from each hospital's GIM division will be allocated at random to enact the intervention. Two other GIM CTUs in each hospital will continue their usual interprofessional practice, without intervention. In total, there are 20 CTUs, 10 in the treatment group and 10 in the control group. Intervention CTUs will be compared with control CTUs on the outcomes of interest.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 1000
Est. completion date December 2008
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group N/A and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients admitted to divisions of General Internal Medicine

- Health care providers working in divisions of General Internal Medicine

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Face-to-face communication interactions


Locations

Country Name City State
Canada Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto Ontario
Canada Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Health Canada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (1)

Reeves S, Russell A, Zwarenstein M, Kenaszchuk C, Conn LG, Doran D, Sinclair L, Lingard L, Oandasan I, Thorpe K, Austin Z, Beales J, Hindmarsh W, Whiteside C, Hodges B, Nasmith L, Silver I, Miller KL, Vogwill V, Strauss S. Structuring communication relationships for interprofessional teamwork (SCRIPT): a Canadian initiative aimed at improving patient-centred care. J Interprof Care. 2007 Feb;21(1):111-4. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary unplanned hospital readmission 7 days post-discharge and 30 days post-discharge
Secondary length of stay in hospital for GIM patients' index admission
Secondary measurement survey of staff members' perceptions of interprofessional collaboration
Secondary patient satisfaction measured by a large standardized, cross-site survey regime
Secondary calls placed to staff members' paging devices
Secondary use of evidence-based, optimal prescription drug therapy
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