NCT06848725

Testing the Implementation of a Toolbox to Optimize Data Collection and Data Quality of the National Medical Quality Indicators in Long-term Care Facilities: A Pilot Study. (NIP-Q-UPGRADE Subaim 1.8)

Completed NA Last updated 25 February 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Data quality development toolkit concerning the medical quality indicators (MQI) in Toolbox to Optimize Data Quality of the National MQIs in 22 participants. Completed in 30 June 2025.

Timeline

5 December 2024

Primary endpoint
30 April 2025

30 June 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Basel
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	22
Start date	5 December 2024
Primary completion	30 April 2025
Estimated completion	30 June 2025
Sites	3 locations across Switzerland

Drugs / interventions tested

• Data quality development toolkit concerning the medical quality indicators (MQI)

Conditions studied

• Toolbox to Optimize Data Quality of the National MQIs — all drugs for Toolbox to Optimize Data Quality of the National MQIs →

Sponsor

University of Basel

Who can join

16 and older, any sex, with Toolbox to Optimize Data Quality of the National MQIs. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Since 2019, long-term care facilities in Switzerland are obliged by the Federal Insurance Law (KVG, Art. 59a) to report data for the calculation and public reporting of medical quality indicators (MQI). By 2024, this is done in four clinical domains: polypharmacy, pain, malnutrition and the use of physical restraints. This data is used for both monitoring quality of care on a national level and for internal quality of care development. To be valid and reliable, MQI data needs to be collected according to specified measurement instructions. An ethnographic study conducted within the NIP-Q-UPGRADE identified numerous challenges, which can lead to poor data quality.

The overall aim of this pilot study is to test the implementation of a data quality development toolkit concerning the MQI.

The toolkit uses a train-the-trainer strategy. The research team will prepare external training providers to train delegated staff from the long-term care facilities (further called champions), who will then train and support their co-workers to collect reliable MQI data. The research team developed training and support materials and organized an e-mail contact centre for MQI related questions for the participating facilities.

Implementation outcomes will be assessed at two levels: long-term care facilities and the external training providers.

Objectives at the external training provider level:

1. To determine the acceptability and feasibility of the training and support materials.
2. To determine the fidelity to the training and adaptations made when implementing it.
3. To identify the barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the training.
4. To measure the costs associated with delivering the training.

Objectives at the long-term care facility level:

1. To determine the acceptability and the feasibility of the data quality development toolkit components.
2. To determine the fidelity to toolkit components and adaptations made when implementing it.
3. To identify the barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the toolkit.
4. To measure the costs associated with implementing the toolkit.

Publications & conference data

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

1. The development of a multi-level intervention to improve data quality of the national quality indicators in Swiss long-term care facilities using an Intervention Mapping approach
   Osińska M, Braun D, Baumann S, Benkert B, et al ·