Cecilia Inés Loudet, Facundo Jorro Barón, Rosa Reina, María Del Pilar Arias López, Silvia Liliana Alegría, Cecilia Del Valle Barrios, Rodolfo Buffa, María Laura Cabana, Eleonora Roxana Cunto, Simón Fernández Nievas, Mariel Ayelén García, Luz Gibbons, Gabriela Izzo, María Natalia Llanos, Claudia Meregalli, José Joaquín Mira, María Elena Ratto, Mariano Luis Rivet, Javier Roberti, Ana María Silvestri, Analía Tévez, Leonardo Joaquín Uranga, Graciela Zakalik, Viviana Rodríguez, Ezequiel García-Elorrio
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Abstract
Background: The demand for healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic was excessive for less-resourced settings, with intensive care units (ICUs) taking the heaviest toll.
Objective: The aim was to achieve adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) use in 90% of patient encounters, to reach 90% compliance with objectives of patient flow (OPF) and to provide emotional support tools to 90% of healthcare workers (HCWs).
Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental study with an interrupted time-series design in 14 ICUs in Argentina. We randomly selected adult critically ill patients admitted from July 2020 to July 2021 and active HCWs in the same period. We implemented a quality improvement collaborative (QIC) with a baseline phase (BP) and an intervention phase (IP). The QIC included learning sessions, periods of action and improvement cycles (plan-do-study-act) virtually coached by experts via platform web-based activities. The main study outcomes encompassed the following elements: proper utilisation of PPE, compliance with nine specific OPF using daily goal sheets through direct observations and utilisation of a web-based tool for tracking emotional well-being among HCWs.
Results: We collected 7341 observations of PPE use (977 in BP and 6364 in IP) with an improvement in adequate use from 58.4% to 71.9% (RR 1.2, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.29, p<0.001). We observed 7428 patient encounters to evaluate compliance with 9 OPF (879 in BP and 6549 in IP) with an improvement in compliance from 53.9% to 67% (RR 1.24, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.32, p<0.001). The results showed that HCWs did not use the support tool for self-mental health evaluation as much as expected.
Conclusion: A QIC was effective in improving healthcare processes and adequate PPE use, even in the context of a pandemic, indicating the possibility of expanding QIC networks nationwide to improve overall healthcare delivery. The limited reception of emotional support tools requires further analyses.
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