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Effects of increasing compliance with minimal sedation on duration of mechanical ventilation: a quality improvement intervention.

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INTRODUCTION:In the past two decades, healthcare adopted industrial strategies for process measurement and control. In the industry model, care is taken to avoid minimal deviations from a standard. In healthcare there is scarce data to support that a similar strategy can lead to better outcomes. Briefly, when compliance is high, further attempts to improve uptake of a process are seldom made. Our intensive care unit (ICU) improved the compliance with minimizing sedation from a high baseline of 80.4% (95% CI: 66.9 to 90.2) to 96.2% (95% CI: 95.2 to 97.0) 12 months after a quality improvement initiative. We sought to measure whether this minute improvement in compliance led to a reduction in duration of mechanical ventilation. METHODS:We collected data on compliance with the process during 12 months. A trained data collector abstracted data from charts every other day. Our database contains data for length of mechanical ventilation, mortality, type of admission, and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II scores for the 12 months before and after the process improvement. RESULTS:We included 1556 patients. There was an immediate effect of the intervention (regression coefficient = -0.129, P value < 0.001) and the secular trend was a determinant of length of mechanical ventilation (regression coefficient = 0.010, P value = 0.004). The trend post-intervention was not significant (regression coefficient = 0.004, P value = 0.380). CONCLUSIONS:In a system already working at high levels of compliance, outcomes can still be improved. Our intervention was successful in reducing the length of mechanical ventilation. ICUs should have a process of quality assurance in place to provide constant monitoring of key quality of care processes and correct deviations from the proposed standard.

journal_name

Crit Care

journal_title

Critical care (London, England)

authors

Amaral AC,Kure L,Jeffs A

doi

10.1186/cc11335

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-05-08 00:00:00

pages

R78

issue

eissn

1364-8535

issn

1466-609X

pii

cc11335

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Effects of increasing compliance with minimal sedation on duration of mechanical ventilation: a quality improvement intervention.