Behavioral Economic & Staffing Strategies in the ICU
Behavioral Economic and Staffing Strategies To Increase Adoption of an Evidence Based Bundle in the Intensive Care Unit (BEST ICU): A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
- Implementation Science
- Delirium
- Critical Illness
- Mechanical Ventilation Complication
- ICU Acquired Weakness
- Pain
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase not stated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- University of Nebraska
- Enrolment target
- 16,500
- Started
- 1 July 2024
- Main results due
- April 2028
- Study sites
- 3
- Registry updated
- 29 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Aged 19 years and over.
- Open to any sex.
- You need the condition being studied — healthy volunteers are not accepted.
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Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> or = to 19 years at time of ICU admission * Received invasive mechanical ventilation while in a cluster ICU * Admitted to participating cluster ICU * Cluster ICU length of stay of at least 24 hours Exclusion Criteria: * Patient who is admitted to the hospital who is already receiving chronic long-term mechanical ventilation from the home, assisted living, or long-term care setting * Prisoners
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
The overarching goal of this study is to support the "real world" assessment of strategies used to foster adoption of several highly efficacious evidence-based practices in healthcare systems that provide care to critically ill adults with known health disparities. Investigators will specifically evaluate two discrete strategies grounded in behavioral economic and implementation science theory (i.e., real-time audit and feedback and registered nurse implementation facilitation) to increase adoption of the ABCDEF bundle in critically ill adults.
Study sites(3)
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Recruiting
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Recruiting
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Recruiting
Showing 3 of 3 sites. 3 of the 3 sites on this study are recruiting right now — a site can stop enrolling while the study as a whole is still open.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06184945. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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