Trial reportRevista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
Statistical analysis of a cluster-randomized clinical trial on adult general intensive care units in Brazil: TELE-critical care verSus usual Care On ICU PErformance (TELESCOPE) trial.
Trial report in Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03920501 (Comparison of Tele-Critical Care Versus Usual Care On ICU Performance), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Comparison of Tele-Critical Care Versus Usual Care On ICU Performance: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telemedicine in adult intensive care: A systematic review of patient-relevant outcomes and methodological considerations.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet): shaping the landscape of critical care research in Brazil and beyond.Critical care science · 2025Review
- Challenges and limitations of using ventilator-free days as an outcome in critical care trials.Critical care science · 2024Article
- Tackling healthcare-associated infections in Brazilian intensive care units: we need more than collaboration.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva · 2022Article
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17 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveThe TELE-critical Care verSus usual Care On ICU PErformance (TELESCOPE) trial aims to assess whether a complex telemedicine intervention in intensive care units, which focuses on daily multidisciplinary rounds performed by remote intensivists, will reduce intensive care unit length of stay compared to usual care.
methodsThe TELESCOPE trial is a national, multicenter, controlled, open label, cluster randomized trial. The study tests the effectiveness of daily multidisciplinary rounds conducted by an intensivist through telemedicine in Brazilian intensive care units. The protocol was approved by the local Research Ethics Committee of the coordinating study center and by the local Research Ethics Committee from each of the 30 intensive care units, following Brazilian legislation. The trial is registered with ClinicalTrials. gov (NCT03920501). The primary outcome is intensive care unit length of stay, which will be analyzed accounting for the baseline period and cluster structure of the data and adjusted by prespecified covariates. Secondary exploratory outcomes included intensive care unit performance classification, in-hospital mortality, incidence of nosocomial infections, ventilator-free days at 28 days, rate of patients receiving oral or enteral feeding, rate of patients under light sedation or alert and calm, and rate of patients under normoxemia.
conclusionAccording to the trial's best practice, we report our statistical analysis prior to locking the database and beginning analyses. We anticipate that this reporting practice will prevent analysis bias and improve the interpretation of the reported results.ClinicalTrials.gov registration: NCT03920501.
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