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Promoting Change in Practice for Respiratory Failure
Sponsor: New York University
Summary
Approximately 300,000 Hispanic individuals experience respiratory failure each year in the U.S. Hispanic patients are twice as likely to die from respiratory failure as non-Hispanic patients. There is an urgent need to identify and remediate mechanisms that increase risk of death from respiratory failure. The team's preliminary work identified two potential mechanisms: Hispanic patients with respiratory failure are more likely to be deeply sedated and less likely to receive physical therapy than non-Hispanic patients, which are both associated with mortality and poor long-term functional outcomes. The overall objective of this proposal is to improve outcomes for patients with respiratory failure through changes in intensive care unit (ICU) practice. This trial will refine and pilot an intervention to promote guideline-concordant care. The team's preliminary intervention will be iteratively refined through patient, family, and clinician engagement and piloted at two U.S. ICUs. The outcome of this study will be an intervention aimed at reducing mortality from respiratory failure.
Official title: Promoting Change in Practice for Respiratory Failure: the PRECIPICE Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
20
Start Date
2026-08-01
Completion Date
2027-04-01
Last Updated
2026-04-09
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Safer sedation bundle
This is a unit-level quality improvement intervention to facilitate evidence-based sedation delivery. The quality improvement intervention consists of identification of a safe sedation champion among clinical staff, initiation of sedation rounds, and tools to facilitate structured assessment of sedation depth, delirium, and pain.