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Status unknownNCT00654797Updated Feb 26, 2015

Improving Blood Glucose Control With a Computerized Decision Support Tool: Phase 2

A Phase 2 interventional study of glucose control with computer generated recommendations in Critically Ill and Hyperglycemia, sponsored by Intermountain Health Care, Inc.. Status unknown at 10 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 1 Month and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-02-26.

Sponsored by Intermountain Health Care, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Feb 2015), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
1 Month and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The Purpose of this study is to:

  1. Introduce the refined, validated, and safe computerized bedside decision support tool for blood glucose management in critically ill adult and pediatric ICU patients that was studied in Phase 1 into a second group of naïve ICUs, none of which participated in eProtocol-insulin development, refinement or validation
  2. Monitor how often low blood sugar levels occur during use of the bedside tool.
  3. Determine how the computerized tool effects the workload of the ICU nurses.
Read the detailed description

In the current second phase of this project (Phase-2), we will introduce the refined, validated, and safe eProtocol-insulin into a second group of naïve ICUs, none of which participated in eProtocol-insulin development, refinement or validation. Our primary goal in this second phase is to determine the feasibility of exporting this tool to naïve ICU environments. In this second phase we will also compare the effects of the eProtocol-insulin and ordinary care approaches to glucose control on the bedside nurse's experience.

This second phase will be a prospective cohort study. We will determine the feasibility of distributing eProtocol-insulin and will further validate eProtocol-insulin in >4 adult and >4 pediatric ICUs. If necessary we will modify eProtocol-insulin with an iterative refinement process, with Institutional Review Board (IRB) and independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) oversight. eProtocol-insulin will be considered refined if >90% of the instructions are accepted and if the percent of glucose values between 70 and 110 mg/dl (3.9-6.1 mMol/L) are equivalent to our Phase-1 refinement and validation experience of 46%%, and if the rate of glucose values \< 40 mg/dl (2.2 mMol/l) is less than 0.5% of glucose measurements.

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Conditions studied

  • Critically Ill
  • Hyperglycemia

Keywords

  • Glucose
  • Insulin
  • computer
  • critical care
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In context

Hyperglycemia

699 studies on the registry are indexed under Hyperglycemia; 105 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 46 across 521 interventional studies indexed under Hyperglycemia.

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Lead sponsor

Intermountain Health Care, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 118 studies on the registry; 15 are open to participants now.

Of its 9 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 3 (33%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
1 Month and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Pediatric ICU: Proposed indications by pediatric clinicians at participating ICUs for glucose control in their ICUs would include patients who require mechanical ventilation for greater than 24 hours and/or require a vasoactive infusion (e.g. dopamine >3 mg/kg/min, dobutamine, epinephrine, or vasopressin).
  2. Adult ICUs: Proposed indications by clinicians in participating ICUs for glucose control in participating adult ICUs include critically ill patients with an anticipated ICU length of stay of 3 or more days.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pregnancy (negative pregnancy test required for females of child-bearing age)
  2. Age less than one month
  3. Inborn errors of metabolism that the clinician suspects will affect glucose homeostasis
  4. Acute or chronic liver disease with any documented episode of blood or plasma glucose \<60 mg/dl within the 24 hours prior to study entry
  5. Diabetic Ketoacidosis (critically ill patients with insulin dependent diabetes not in ketoacidosis will be eligible if attending physicians intend to use intravenous insulin as part of ordinary care)
  6. Severe chronic liver disease (Child-Pugh score >10)
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    eProtocol

    Procedure: glucose control with computer generated recommendations

Interventions

  • Procedureglucose control with computer generated recommendations

    Insulin dosing will be recommended by the computer tools based on subject glucose values. Bedside clinicians will have the ablity to accept or reject the suggested dose.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The primary outcome variable for feasibility during Phase-2 will be the acceptability of the eProtocol-insulin instructions (compliance of bedside clinicians with instructions). Proportion of glucose values < 40 mg/dl.

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of glucose determinations between 70 and 110 mg/dl (3.9-6.1 mMol/L) (efficacy)

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. Time to reach the 80-110 mg/dl target

    Time frame: 1 year

  3. Nursing perception of workload in comparison to ordinary care (efficacy and feasibility)

    Time frame: 1 year

  4. Proportion of glucose values 41-60 mg/dl

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

10 of 10 sites recruiting
  • Childrens Hospital Centeral California
    Madera, California, United States
    • Ana Graciano, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Childrens Hospital of Minnesota - St. Paul
    St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
    • Stephen Kurachek, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
    Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
    • Dan Levin, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Cornell University Medical College
    New York, New York, United States
    • Bruce Greenwald, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
    New York, New York, United States
    • Michelle Gong, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
    • David Bowton, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio, United States
    • Ali Naeem, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
    Galveston, Texas, United States
    • Victor Cardenas, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • Ben Taub General Hospital
    Houston, Texas, United States
    • Kalpalatha Guntupalli, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Houston, Texas, United States
    • Joseph Nates, MD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 26, 2015, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00654797
Lead sponsor
Intermountain Health Care, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 9, 2008
Start date
Sep 2007
Primary completion
Dec 2017 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 26, 2015

Study contacts

Alan Morris, MD
Contact
Alan.Morris@intermountainmail.org
801-408-1610
Alan H Morris, MD
principal investigator · Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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