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CompletedNCT02398981CERTAINpUpdated Feb 6, 2019

Implementation of a Web Based Real Time Clinical Decision Support Tool.

An interventional study of Clinical decision support tool in Critical Illness, Sepsis and Respiratory Failure, sponsored by Mayo Clinic. Completed at 10 sites in 6 countries. Open to participants aged Up to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-02-06.

Primary conditionSepsisRegistry: Critical IllnessReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Critical Illness — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Sepsis
Why
  1. Critical Illness is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's listed conditions name Sepsis.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by Mayo Clinic · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
962
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
Up to 17 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

In the developed world critical illness is routinely treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) by highly specialized physicians, nurses and support staff. This model of intensive care is spreading rapidly to low and middle income countries and as it spreads, challenges and limitations to this model arise. In resource-poor settings, inadequate human resources, training, and equipment all present barriers to safe and effective use of life-saving procedures. The advances in medical informatics and human factors engineering have provided tremendous opportunity for novel and user-friendly clinical decision support (CDS) tools that can be applied in a complex and busy hospital setting. Real-time data feeds and standardized patient care tasks in a simulated acute care environment have been proven to have a significant advantage of a novel interface (compared to a conventional) in reducing provider cognitive load and errors. Currently researchers within the investigator's research group have developed and are pilot testing a simple electronic decision support tool: CERTAIN (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness). This tool has been successfully tested and validated in simulated settings and is being implemented as pilot study in 18 countries. Worldwide infant and early childhood mortality continues to be very high partly due to the inability to recognize and respond aggressively to critical illnesses. Investigators expect that adaptation of the algorithms from CERTAIN has potential to be a powerful tool to improve on the medical care of children in developing countries. Investigators aim in this project is 1) to develop a pediatric adaptation of CERTAIN (CERTAINp) and 2) to implement it into clinical practice in resource-poor settings and evaluate the impact of the tool on the processes and patient outcomes.

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Conditions studied

  • Critical Illness
  • Sepsis
  • Respiratory Failure
  • Shock
  • Bleeding

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In context

Sepsis Reclassified

2,416 studies on the registry are indexed under Sepsis; 541 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 962 is above the median of 102 across 1,165 interventional studies indexed under Sepsis.

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Lead sponsor

Mayo Clinic is the lead sponsor of 3,269 studies on the registry; 672 are open to participants now.

Of its 452 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 321 (71%) have results posted.

Compared within Sepsis, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Critical Illness. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 17 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • All pediatric patients (\< 18 years) admitted for the first time to the participating PICUs will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not critically ill, admitted for low risk monitoring, planned PICU admission for routine post operative surveillance for less than 24 hours after uncomplicated surgery, readmission and transfer from outside PICU.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
962 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    Baseline

    Baseline data collection ( 20 patients per ICU)

  • Experimental
    Checklist

    This study is about training and implementation of best critical care practices in the international ICUs with variable resources facilitated by access to a specifically designed electronic checklist 40 patients per ICU

    Other: Clinical decision support tool

Interventions

  • OtherClinical decision support tool

    Also known as: Checklist

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. ICU and hospital lengths of stay

    Patient will be followed till they get discharged from hospital for whatever length they stay

    Time frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 8 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Adherence to best critical care practices as measured by composite measures of best practice guidelines.

    Adherence to best practice in initial evaluation and treatment of critically ill medical and surgical patients Appropriate shock resuscitation Appropriate sepsis treatment Appropriate mechanical ventilation Appropriate peptic ulcer, deep vein thrombosis and infectious disease prophylaxis. For example Number of patients managed with 100% compliance with sepsis guidelines ( included in the standard operating procedures)/ Number of eligible patients admitted in the time period .

    Time frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of ICU stay, an expected average of 2 weeks

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Study locations

10 sites
  • Bao'an Maternity & Child Health Hospital
    Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
  • Chengdu 2nd Hospital
    Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Chengdu Women & Children's Central Hospital
    Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • West China Hospital
    Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Shanghai Childrens' Medical Center
    Shanghai, China
  • Centre Medical Evangelique-Nyankunde
    Nyankunde, Eastern Province, Congo
  • University Hospital of Split
    Split, Croatia
  • Fiji National University
    Samabula, Fiji
  • JSS hospital
    Mysore, Karnataka, India
  • Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño
    Lima, Peru
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Feb 2015 to primary completion in Dec 2018, 46 months.

Of 301 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Sepsis, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 42. This study's 46 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 324 studies reached it within 22 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 40.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 13, 2015
First posted
Mar 26, 2015
StartActual
Feb 2015
Primary completionActual
Dec 31, 2018
CompletionActual
Dec 31, 2018
Last update
Feb 6, 2019
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 6, 2019, 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
NCT02398981
Lead sponsor
Mayo Clinic
Responsible party
Grace M. Arteaga, M.D. (PI, Mayo Clinic) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 26, 2015
Start date
Feb 2015
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2018
Completion
Dec 31, 2018
Last update
Feb 6, 2019

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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