Assessing the Team SA Instrument in Measuring the Effectiveness of Communication Across Disciplines During ICU Rounds

Personal Communication Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessing the Utility of the Team SA Instrument in Measuring the Effectiveness of Communication Across Disciplines During ICU Rounds

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01856608
• Other study ID #: 2012B0233
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 15, 2013
• Last updated: September 15, 2014
• Start date: July 2012
• Est. completion date: July 2013

Study information

• Verified date: July 2013
• Source: Ohio State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Assessing the utility of the Team SA instrument in measuring the effectiveness of communication across disciplines during ICU rounds.

Description:

Multidisciplinary rounds are events that occur daily in Intensive care units. During these events, practitioners from multiple disciplines meet at a pre-specified time to discuss current medical condition and plans of care. At the conclusion of these discussions, all practitioners are expected to understand the plan of care well enough to execute defined tasks, but also coordinate as circumstances change. In order to coordinate under changing circumstances practitioners must have a broader understanding of the current state of the patient and how likely certain deteriorations are. This synthetic understanding of patient risks across multi-provider groups has been described as anticipatory team situational awareness (Team SA). One instrument has been validated in the ICU as feasible and informative. This Team SA survey successfully identified that the time spent in "training" discussions improved Team SA across physician groups. The investigators' goal is to implement this survey across the investigators' medical ICU service to obtain a baseline estimate of how effective current communication patterns are for achieving concordant Team SA. If gaps in communication are encountered future interventions will be developed

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 240
• Est. completion date: July 2013
• Est. primary completion date: July 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 17 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nurses, primary clinicians (resident or NP) and Critical Care physicians (Staff or Fellow in Critical Care Medicine) will be approached for interview. All subjects will be approached individually and asked to participate outside of the presence of the other potential study subjects.

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Personal Communication

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute 473 w. 12TH aVE	Columbus	Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Naeem Ali, MD

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To determine if it is feasible to survey clinicians regarding their opinions about future risks for individual patients in the ICU setting To determine the range of team situational awareness exhibited by current ICU clinician teams		It is expected that a maximum of ten minutes will be required to complete the survey.	No