24 Hour Intensivist Coverage in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,609

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 30, 2011

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2012

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2012

Conditions
Critically Ill
Interventions
OTHER

Nocturnal coverage

"The investigators will randomize, by week, nocturnal coverage. During the intervention weeks, intensivists will be in the MICU from 7pm until 7am.~For the Intensivist Sleep and Work sub-study:~Measurements of Daytime Intensivist work hours, sleep, and attention will be measured with actigraphy, PVT, Sleep and Work Diaries, and Surveys. Results will be compared between periods with standard staffing to periods with overnight intensivist coverage."

Trial Locations (1)

19104

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

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