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Sumamos Excelencia Project: Implementation of Best Practices in Clinical Practice (Thrid Edition)

Sumamos Excelencia Project: Implementation of Best Practices in Clinical Practice (Thrid Edition)

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Overview

There is a gap between research and clinical practice, leading to variability in decision-making. Multifaceted implementation strategies are for improving implementation of best practices. Quasi-experimental, multicentre, before and after. Primary care, hospital units and nursing homes, and the patients attended at both. Implementation of evidence-based recommendations by application of a multifaceted implementation strategy (training, audit, context analysis, local strategies design, feedback, facilitation). Data will be collected at baseline and, during the first year of follow up, at months (4,8,12)

Description

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of implementing evidence-based recommendations using multifaceted implementation strategy on patient outcomes and healthcare quality. Design: Quasi-experimental, multicentre, before-and-after. Methods: NHS units and Nursing Homes, patients attended by them and professionals implementing the recommendations. Intervention: implementation of evidence-based recommendation with a multifaceted implementation strategy (training, audit, context analysis, local strategies design, feedback, facilitation). Variables: Process and outcome criteria with respect to assessment and management of pain, management of urinary incontinence, prevention of child obesity, promotion of breastfeeding, promotion of hand hygiene, smoking cessation intervention, pressure injury prevention, fall prevention, competencies in evidence-based practice, barriers to the implementation and strategies for overcoming them. Data will be collected at baseline and, during the first year of follow-up, at months 4, 8 and 12, with data on patients and indicators being drawn from clinical histories and records. Descriptive analysis and comparison of the effectiveness of the intervention by means of inferential analysis and analysis of trends across follow-up. 95% confidence level. This project is partially funded by The Spanish Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Healthcare. Project duration 2024-2025.

This project is a third edition of The SUMAMOS EXCELENCIA Project: Assessment of Implementation of Best Practices in a National Health System (NCT05466656), with an improved design and new recommendation topics.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Unit inclusion criteria:
    • NHS units and nursing homes which voluntary adhere to the project.
    • NHS units and nursing homes providing direct patient care and commit to implement evidence-based recommendations on hand hygiene and one of the following topics: pain assessment and management, urinary incontinence management, obesity prevention and breastfeeding promotion, Smoking Cessation, falls prevention, pressure injuries prevention. For the purposes of this study, a "unit" is defined as any service, centre or institution that delivers health services to a homogeneous group of patients who share similar characteristics.
  2. Patient inclusion criteria: The study will include all patients attended in the

    units participating in the study, who meet the following criteria, depending on the recommendations to be implemented in each unit:

    1. Pain:
      • People susceptible to suffering some type of pain regardless of age.
      • Patients treated in acute or chronic health institutions (Hospitals, Nursing Homes or Primary Care).
    2. Urinary incontinence:
      • Patients 18 years or older.
      • Patients with uncomplicated stress, urge or mixed urinary incontinence
      • At least 7 days of admission or possibility of continuity of care preferably up to 6 weeks.
    3. Obesity:
      • Babies and preschool children up to 12 years old.
      • For ages 2 to 12 years (inclusive), children must not be overweight or obese 1 year prior to baseline measurement (in February 2021 or at the closest review to February 2021 at which BMI is recorded).
      • Good general health.
    4. Breastfeeding:
      • Lactating people.
      • Healthy neonates of gestational age greater than 36 weeks, with birth weight greater than or equal to 2500 gr.
      • Couples and relatives within the support network.
      • Postpartum period and up to 6 months of life of the baby (183 days of life, included).
      • In primary care, only non-urgent care will be included.
    5. Smoking Cessation:
      • ≥ 18 years of age
        • Smokers
    6. Pressure injury prevention:
      • Adults population (≥ 18 years).
        • Admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or included in home care programmes.
        • Patients at risk of developing pressure injuries.
    7. Falls prevention:
      • Adults aged 65 years or older, and adults aged 18 years or older who may potentially present problems in walking as a result of neurological or traumatic diseases, medication, or who suffer from loss of strength or drowsiness.
    8. Hand hygiene:
      • All health professionals who care for patients in the units participating in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

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Study details
    Pain
    Obesity
    Childhood
    Breast Feeding
    Incontinence
    Urinary
    Smoking Cessation
    Pressure Injury
    Fall

NCT06522529

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

15 October 2025

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