PERFormance Enhancement of the Canadian Nutrition Guidelines by a Tailored Implementation Strategy: The PERFECTIS Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Critically Ill, Intensive Care Unit

In brief

Canadian Critical Care Nutrition Guidelines assist health practitioners in identifying best practices for feeding critically ill patients. However, guidelines have resulted in little change in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) practices, possibly because barriers to change differ between ICUs. Change may be facilitated if strategies specifically address identified barriers. The investigators hypothesize that barriers are inversely related to nutrition performance. Tailoring change strategies to overcome barriers to change will reduce the presence of these barriers and lead to improvements in nutrition practice.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01168128

Run by

Daren K. Heyland

People needed

278

Starts

2009-09-16

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-12-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ICUs must be affiliated with a registered dietitian.
• ICUs must have a minimum of 8 beds.
• ICUs must be located in Canada, Australia, or US.
• ICUs have previously participated in the International Nutrition Survey.

You may not qualify if…

• ICUs with less than 8 beds.
• ICUs with high nutrition performance, as demonstrated previously in the International Nutrition Survey (i.e. average nutritional adequacy >60% and/or above 50th percentile when ranked against all participating ICUs according to nutrition practice performance score)

Where it is running

• Anne Arundel Medical Center — Annapolis, Maryland, United States
• Spartanburg Regional Medical Center — Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
• Peter Lougheed — Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Capital Health - University of Alberta Hospital (hospital general systems) — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Southlake Regional Health Centre — Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

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