Rehabilitation Team Functioning and Patient Outcomes

NCT00237757 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: O3225-R
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 31
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if 1. Rehabilitation staff can be trained to work better together as a team; and 2. Better team work improves patient outcomes.

Conditions

Stroke

Keywords

Patient Care Team; Rehabilitation outcomes; Treatment outcomes

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• functional gain as measured by motor FIM score

  One year post team training intervention

Study Arms (2)

Arm 1

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental arm consisted of a six month staff training period with an emphasis on effective team functioning to improve patient outcomes. The core of the intervention consisted of a concentrated 2.5 day workshop in Atlanta for 29 rehabilitation team leaders from 15 VA hospitals. Several weeks after the workshop, participants received a custom action plan developed on issues discussed in the workshop. The experimental arm also received a summary of results of the initial survey along with comparative data from all other sites. During the subsequent 5 months after the workshop, research staff maintained regular contact with research participants through telephone and videoconferencing

Behavioral: Information feedback

Arm 2

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The comparison arm (staff on 16 teams) completed the identical summary of staff, hospital, and team characteristics. The local PIs at the Comparison sites received summaries of the survey findings, comparative data from other participating VA sites, and suggestions on how this information could be used to improve patient outcomes. In addition, participants in the comparison arm were invited to contact the research staff for help in interpreting data or to set-up a process improvement initiative.

Behavioral: Information feedback

Interventions

Information feedback BEHAVIORAL

The experimental arm consisted of a six month staff training period. The core of the intervention consisted of a concentrated 2.5 day workshop in Atlanta for 29 rehabilitation team leaders from 15 VA hospitals. Several weeks after the workshop, participants received a custom action plan developed on issues discussed in the workshop. The experimental arm also received a summary of results of the initial survey along with comparative data from all other sites. During the subsequent 5 months after the workshop, research staff maintained regular contact with research participants through telephone and videoconferencing. The comparison arm (staff on 16 teams) completed the identical summary of staff, hospital, and team characteristics. The local PIs at the Comparison sites received summaries of the survey findings, comparative data from other participating VA sites, and suggestions on how this information could be used to improve patient outcomes.

Arm 1

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Randomized, controlled subjects were VA inpatient rehabilitation teams. Secondary data included telephone surveys from discharged patients treated by the rehabilitation teams.

You may not qualify if:

• VA sites which did not submit data to the VA-FSOD - the national functional outcomes database

Sponsors & Collaborators

• US Department of Veterans Affairs: lead

Study Sites (1)

VA Medical Center, Decatur

Decatur, Georgia, 30033, United States

Location

Related Publications (9)

• Strasser DC, Falconer JA, Uomoto JM. Can quality of care indicators measure quality of care? Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2012 Nov;93(11):2130-1; author reply 2131-2. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2012.04.035. No abstract available.

  PMID: 23101971 BACKGROUND

• Stevens AB, Strasser DC, Uomoto J, Bowen SE, Falconer JA. Utility of Treatment Implementation methods in clinical trial with rehabilitation teams. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2007;44(4):537-46. doi: 10.1682/jrrd.2006.09.0120.

  PMID: 18247250 BACKGROUND

• Strasser DC, Uomoto JM, Smits SJ. The interdisciplinary team and polytrauma rehabilitation: prescription for partnership. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Jan;89(1):179-81. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.06.774.

  PMID: 18164351 BACKGROUND

• Strasser DC, Smits SJ, Falconer JA, Herrin JS, Bowen SE. The influence of hospital culture on rehabilitation team functioning in VA hospitals. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2002 Jan-Feb;39(1):115-25.

  PMID: 11926323 BACKGROUND

• Strasser DC, Falconer JA, Herrin JS, Bowen SE, Stevens AB, Uomoto J. Team functioning and patient outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005 Mar;86(3):403-9. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.04.046.

  PMID: 15759219 RESULT

• Strasser DC, Burridge AB, Falconer JA, Herrin J, Uomoto J. Measuring team process for quality improvement. Top Stroke Rehabil. 2010 Jul-Aug;17(4):282-93. doi: 10.1310/tsr1704-282.

  PMID: 20826416 RESULT

• Strasser DC, Falconer JA, Stevens AB, Uomoto JM, Herrin J, Bowen SE, Burridge AB. Team training and stroke rehabilitation outcomes: a cluster randomized trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Jan;89(1):10-5. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.08.127.

  PMID: 18164324 RESULT

• Smits SJ, Falconer JA, Herrin J, Bowen SE, Strasser DC. Patient-focused rehabilitation team cohesiveness in veterans administration hospitals. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2003 Sep;84(9):1332-8. doi: 10.1016/s0003-9993(03)00197-7.

  PMID: 13680570 RESULT

• Strasser DC, Burridge AB, Falconer JA, Uomoto JM, Herrin J. Toward spanning the quality chasm: an examination of team functioning measures. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2014 Nov;95(11):2220-3. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2014.06.013. Epub 2014 Jul 4.

  PMID: 25007707 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stroke

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Cerebrovascular Disorders; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Dale Christian Strasser, MD

  VA Medical Center, Decatur

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: FED
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 7, 2005
• First Posted: October 12, 2005
• Study Start: January 1, 2002
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2004
• Study Completion: September 1, 2009
• Last Updated: July 3, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-07

Locations

US (1)