NCT04977414

Making Data Count Intervention Evaluation

Completed NA Last updated 11 December 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Making Data Count Training intervention in Statistical Process Control Charts in 15 participants. Completed in 30 June 2023.

Timeline

1 October 2021

Primary endpoint
31 January 2023

30 June 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Warwick
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	15
Start date	1 October 2021
Primary completion	31 January 2023
Estimated completion	30 June 2023
Sites	1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• Making Data Count Training intervention

Conditions studied

• Statistical Process Control Charts — all drugs for Statistical Process Control Charts →

Sponsor

University of Warwick

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Statistical Process Control Charts. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Hospitals collect copious amounts of data to share with their board for quality assurance and improvement purposes. The way these data are presented can influence board members' decisions. For example, time-series charts highlight the highest and lowest data but do not clarify whether those data lie outside expected or 'common cause' variation. Statistical process control charts make this clarification and, in so doing, guide quality assurance and improvements in a more targeted fashion.

A previous study showed that data suitable for presentation as a control chart are seldom presented in that format. A training intervention called 'Making Data Count' was created to improve the uptake of statistical process control charts by hospitals in England. The current study will use a randomized design to evaluate whether the intervention increases control charts in hospitals that were not early adopters of the training intervention.

This study is a parallel cluster randomized trial (with baseline-line measurements) across 20 National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England. The hospitals will be randomly split into two groups. One group will be scheduled to experience the training intervention, and the other group will be placed on a waiting list to experience the training later. The primary analysis will compare the difference in the use of control charts between waitlist and intervention hospitals (adjusting for pre-intervention use) reported with 95% confidence intervals. A qualitative thematic analysis of feedback forms will be conducted.

The present research will evaluate the impact of the training intervention on the use of control charts. The results will apply to institutions that are not early adopters of this training intervention.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Cluster randomised evaluation of a training intervention to increase the use of statistical process control charts for hospitals in England: making data count.
   Schmidtke KA, Kudrna L, Quinn L, Bird P, et al · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 39237263 · DOI 10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017094