Early ID study

Purpose

To find out if early notification and involvement by Infectious Disease of positive blood cultures will have an impact on improving patient outcome.

Collection Instructions

For all patients who are on the lab list Template:Discussion (what is the actual name of the list?) for the study wards, enter:

• "Positive Culture": date and time of positive culture, for all patients in study
• "ID Consult": date and time Infectious Disease Department consult response; if no response or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "no consult response" (shortened to "no response" in the label due to space restrictions)
• "Order": date and time order written to change to appropriate antibiotic, if change is needed; if no change or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "not available" (shortened to "not avail." in the label due to space restrictions)
• "Antibiotic": date and time new antibiotic is given; if no new antibiotic is given or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "no new antibiotic" (shortened to "no new AB" in the label due to space restrictions)

Special Cases

Suggested to Con to use similar to QA Septic, waiting for details before I make the data consistency checks. Ttenbergen 13:34, 24 December 2010 (CST) Template:Discussion

Remaining Questions

Please integrate answers to these into the article, don't state them as answers here. Ttenbergen 13:29, 24 December 2010 (CST) Template:Discussion

Site and Ward involved

This study will run at HSC only

• Control units: H4
• Study units: A4 and D4

Study Run Times

• Approved by Dr Roberts: January 2010
• Start date: January 17,2011
• Review Date: 30 days after start date
• Preliminary End Date: 1 month to 3 months after start date

Lead

• lead contact for this project at the requestor's end
• Dr. John Embil Director, Infection Diseases Program.
  • Terry Wuerz - resident physician
  • Con Marks - Database Program

Consistency Checks

Tmp Checker will check for the following:

• dates will need to be consistent with admit/discharge; waiting to hear back what rules will be for pts who leave.Ttenbergen 13:24, 24 December 2010 (CST) Template:Discussion
• If "Positive Culture" entry is present for a patient, then there will have to be either a date or a checkbox for the other three entries.

Send mode

Will data be sent for every patient at every send.

Statistician

• What data will the statistician need to provide? Template:Discussion
  • E-mail sent to Dr Embil Dec 22/10 and also to Julie Mojorica Dec 23/10--CMarks 13:35, 23 December 2010 (CST)