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NCT Number: NCT02854826

Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care Implementation

Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care is a nurse-led interprofessional team model to rapidly identify and provide safe and effective inpatient care to high risk older adults and help support their successful transition back to the community. Developed and demonstrated to be effective in one hospital - the model is now being disseminated and studied in three additional hospitals (multiple organizational case study).

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Key information

Conditions

Frail Older Adutls

Age range

18 year–110 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

About this study

Three Magnet hospitals in Los Angeles County (Huntington Hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Health System) are collaborating on this demonstration and evaluation project (Multiple Case-Study Design). The project will engage interprofessional hospital leadership; provide training and coaching in implementation processes of the SAFE Care model; and track outcome of the SAFE Care model as implemented in the three collaborating site hospitals (three case studies). The investigators hope to contribute to the existing state of the science in dissemination and implementation of evidenced-based innovations. The collective data from the three sites (collected through interviews with hospital leadership and staff and with de-identified patient data on program implementation outcomes) will provide information about the effectiveness of the implementation process and support further dissemination.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Organizational Leadership Nursing Unit Leadership/staff Adults aged 65 years

Exclusion criteria

65 years and older that are on hospice protocols or dying/comfort care protocols.

Treatment and study plan

SAFE Care model of care

Other

SAFE Care Model Site Intervention:

Endorse best practices for frail patients;
Identify frail patients promptly using multi-dimensional screening and assessments;
Employ interprofessional unit-based care team approach to frailty risk reduction during inpatient stay and create post-acute care transitions (PACT) plan recommendations;
Develop electronic health record templates for patient-centered interprofessional frailty notes;
Communicate PACT plans to primary care providers to promote safe transitions to the ambulatory setting and across the continuum of care.
Increase awareness, improve management of frailty, and improve overall health and well-being for adults who are frail or at risk of becoming frail.

Primary outcomes

Implementation of SAFE Care model. Decreased Length of Stay

Time frame: Up to 24 months

The purpose of this project is to spread a successful model for rapidly identifying high risk vulnerable adults during an acute inpatient episode and intervening as an interprofessional team. An added purpose is to engage and promote involvement of participating hospitals' nursing research and evidence-based practice nurse experts in evaluating, adapting, and disseminating the SAFE Care model principles. We will evaluate if there is replication of the findings of the previous research (a cluster randomized controlled trial) conducted at Cedars-Sinai; that is, reduced LOS, reduced hospital complications (increased patient safety) and reduced use of ICU days. The evaluation plan for this project strongly supports collection and sharing of data on the process and outcomes of implementation of SAFE Care.
Implementation of SAFE Care model. Reduced use of ICU days

Time frame: Up to 24 months

he purpose of this project is to spread a successful model for rapidly identifying high risk vulnerable adults during an acute inpatient episode and intervening as an interprofessional team. An added purpose is to engage and promote involvement of participating hospitals' nursing research and evidence-based practice nurse experts in evaluating, adapting, and disseminating the SAFE Care model principles. We will evaluate if there is replication of the findings of the previous research (a cluster randomized controlled trial) conducted at Cedars-Sinai; that is, reduced LOS, reduced hospital complications (increased patient safety) and reduced use of ICU days. The evaluation plan for this project strongly supports collection and sharing of data on the process and outcomes of implementation of SAFE Care.
Implementation of SAFE Care model. Reduced hospital complications

Time frame: Up to 24 months

he purpose of this project is to spread a successful model for rapidly identifying high risk vulnerable adults during an acute inpatient episode and intervening as an interprofessional team. An added purpose is to engage and promote involvement of participating hospitals' nursing research and evidence-based practice nurse experts in evaluating, adapting, and disseminating the SAFE Care model principles. We will evaluate if there is replication of the findings of the previous research (a cluster randomized controlled trial) conducted at Cedars-Sinai; that is, reduced LOS, reduced hospital complications (increased patient safety) and reduced use of ICU days. The evaluation plan for this project strongly supports collection and sharing of data on the process and outcomes of implementation of SAFE Care.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Other

Collaborators

Huntington Hospital
Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Torrance Memorial
UniHealth Foundation

Registry information

Acronym: SAFE

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2018
First posted: Aug 4, 2016
Registry last updated: Aug 31, 2018

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