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Table 3 World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set for IMPROVE-GAP trial

From: The IMPROVE-GAP Trial aiming to improve evidence-based management of community-acquired pneumonia: study protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial

Data category

Information

Primary registry and trial identifying number

www.ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02835040

Date of registration in primary registry

22 May 2016

Secondary identifying numbers

Not applicable

Trial protocol version

This is Version 3 of the protocol and was enacted on 24 August 2016

Source of monetary or material support

The HCF Research Foundation (AU $300,000)

Primary sponsor

The HCF Research Foundation

Secondary sponsor

Not applicable

Contact for public queries

HK, harin.karunajeewa@wh.org.au

Contact for scientific queries

HK, harin.karunajeewa@wh.org.au

Public title

IMPROVing Evidence-based treatment Gaps and outcomes in community-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPROVE-GAP).

Scientific title

IMPROVE-GAP: Evaluating the impact of a new model of care designed to improve evidence-based management of community-acquired pneumonia

Country of recruitment

Australia

Health condition or problem studied

Community-acquired pneumonia

Intervention

Active comparator: Evidence-based bundle of care (specifically: corticosteroids, early mobilisation, guideline-compliance antibiotic and early switch to oral antibiotic therapy, malnutrition risk screening and targeted nutritional therapy)

Placebo comparator: Usual inpatient care

Key inclusion and exclusion criteria

Ages eligible for study: ≥ 18 yrs

Sexes eligible for study: Both

Accepts healthy volunteers: No

Inclusion criteria: All adults admitted to the institution under a general internal medicine unit with community-acquired pneumonia (meeting a standardised community-acquired pneumonia definition)

Exclusion criteria: (1) patients where a decision is made to implement palliative care on admission; (2) existing enrolment in a clinical trial.

Study type

Type: Investigator-initiated, interventional, pragmatic, study

Allocation: Concealed randomisation

Intervention model: Stepped-wedge rollout

Masking: Patient and assessor blinded

Primary purpose: Treatment

Phase: Phase IV

Date of first enrolment

01/08/2016

Target sample size

Minimum 640 patients

Recruitment status

Recruiting

Primary outcome measure

Hospital length of stay

Key secondary outcome measures

Inpatient mortality, 30 and 90 day readmission rates and mortality, ICU admission and ventilation, total clinical costings, protocol adherence, serious adverse events