BEST-ICU Clinical Trial
The BEST-ICU study is a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Health. Our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is working with many other ICUs across the country in this important study.
Why we are doing this study:
- Sometimes, ICU patients have long-lasting health concerns. There is a set of evidence-based practices used in the ICU that can help patients recover, called the ABCDEF bundle.
- We know the ABCDEF bundle helps improve patient outcomes, but it can be hard to deliver the bundle in everyday ICU practice.
- Our study's purpose is to evaluate two different ways of helping ICU providers increase ABCDEF bundle delivery to critically ill patients.
What we might do differently during this study:
- We will use one of two ways to help your ICU team reach their goal of delivering the ABCDEF bundle:
Unit Dashboard - A video screen in the ICU unit that reminds hospital teams when they need to provide care from the ABCDEF bundle for a patient.
Nurse Facilitator - A dedicated nurse who works with the ICU team to help with getting patients moving, monitoring their progress, and setting goals.
- Study timing and which ICU unit you are in will determine which strategy your ICU receives.
- All patients will continue to get care as usual as ordered by the ICU providers, no matter what.
What this means for patients in the ICU:
- Researchers are collecting information about care processes and patients in the ICU and will make sure that this information is kept private and safe.
- To protect your confidentiality, the information sent to the University of Nebraska will be identified by a scrambled code. No patients will be able to be identified by name in the study records.
