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CompletedNCT02414191Updated Mar 24, 2020

Feedback on Perioperative Temperature Management and Patient Outcomes: Three-arm Trial to Compare Feedback

An interventional study of Benchmarked Feedback and Ranked Feedback in Surgical Site Infections and Hypothermia, sponsored by Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-24.

Sponsored by Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
45
Allocation
Randomized
Sex
All
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Study summary

The investigators aim to assess the impact of benchmarked and ranked feedback on anesthesiologists' perioperative temperature management and subsequent patient outcomes.

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Conditions studied

  • Surgical Site Infections
  • Hypothermia

Keywords

  • Feedback
  • Temperature management
  • Anesthesia
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In context

Surgical Wound Infection

670 studies on the registry are indexed under Surgical Wound Infection; 141 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 45 is below the median of 200 across 514 interventional studies indexed under Surgical Wound Infection.

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Lead sponsor

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is the lead sponsor of 538 studies on the registry; 100 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Staff Anesthesiologists at The Ottawa Hospital

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • none
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
45 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    Control

    Participants in this study arm will receive no form of feedback.

  • Other
    Benchmarked Feedback

    Participants in this study arm will receive benchmarked feedback regarding their perioperative temperature management.

    Behavioral: Benchmarked Feedback

  • Other
    Ranked Feedback

    Participants in this study arm will receive ranked feedback regarding their perioperative temperature management.

    Behavioral: Ranked Feedback

Interventions

  • BehavioralBenchmarked Feedback

    Participants receive data, during the 6 month intervention phase, regarding their monthly temperature management performance in the form of benchmarked feedback, which is the measure of their performance in comparison the standard set by the hospital.

  • BehavioralRanked Feedback

    Participants receive data, during the 6 month intervention phase, regarding their monthly temperature management performance in the form of ranked feedback, which is the measure of their performance in comparison to their peers.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Patient peri-operative temperature

    Time frame: Within the 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Intraoperative warming device usage perioperative

    Time frame: intraoperative

  2. Patient post-operative surgical site infection (SSI) rate

    Time frame: Within 30 days of surgery

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Study locations

1 site
  • The Ottawa Hospital
    Ottawa, Ontario K1Y4E9, Canada
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References and documents

Publications

  • Boet S, Bryson GL, Taljaard M, Pigford AA, McIsaac DI, Brehaut J, Forster A, Mohamed K, Clavel N, Pysyk C, Grimshaw JM; Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group. Effect of audit and feedback on physicians' intraoperative temperature management and patient outcomes: a three-arm cluster randomized-controlled trial comparing benchmarked and ranked feedback. Can J Anaesth. 2018 Nov;65(11):1196-1209. doi: 10.1007/s12630-018-1205-0. Epub 2018 Aug 29. PubMed 30159716 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 24, 2020, 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
NCT02414191
Lead sponsor
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 10, 2015
Start date
Feb 2015
Primary completion
Apr 6, 2018
Completion
Apr 6, 2018
Last update
Mar 24, 2020

Study contacts

Sylvain Boet, MD, PhD
principal investigator · The Ottawa Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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