Cirrhosis Care Alberta (CCAB): A Pragmatic Type II Hybrid Effectiveness Implementation Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Standardized Order Set

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Liver cirrhosis is the leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality in patients with digestive disease. There are many gaps in care which contribute to a high rate of hospital readmissions (44 percent at 90 days) and inadequate quality of care. Currently, there is a lack of structured processes to initiate best practice support for medical and broader health needs of high risk patients. The cirrhosis care Alberta program (CCAB) is a 3 year multi-component quality improvement initiative which will aim to improve quality of care, reduce acute care utilization and be satisfactory to both patients and providers. Best practice support will be provided in the areas of: Evidence based management of cirrhosis, alcohol use support, frailty, advance care planning, home-hospital-home transitions including standardized outpatient monitoring and structured urgent access for rapid, on-demand outpatient assessment.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• Adults (great than 18 years of age) with a clinical diagnosis of cirrhosis (confirmed by compatible radiology, histology or fibroscan)

• Admitted to a study hospital site

Locations
Other Locations
Canada
University of Alberta
RECRUITING
Edmonton
Contact Information
Primary
Puneeta Tandon, MD
ptandon@ualberta.ca
780-492-9844
Backup
Michelle Carbonneau, MN, NP
michelle.carbonneau@albertahealthservices.ca
780-492-9991
Time Frame
Start Date: 2019-06-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-07-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 3975
Treatments
No_intervention: Control
Current practice at baseline, routine cirrhosis care.
Experimental: Intervention
Use of a standardized cirrhosis order set.
Active_comparator: Intervention + EMR
Use of a standardized cirrhosis order set embedded within an electronic medical record.
Sponsors
Collaborators: Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, Alberta Health services
Leads: University of Alberta

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