An Innovative Telemedical Network to Improve Infectious Disease Management in Critically Ill Patients and Outpatients (TELnet@NRW): Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Gernot Marx   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Wolfgang Greiner   ² , Prof Dr ;   Christian Juhra   ³ , PD Dr ;   Svenja Elkenkamp   ² , MSc ;   Daniel Gensorowsky   ² , MSc ;   Sebastian Lemmen   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Jan Englbrecht   ³ , Dr med ;   Sandra Dohmen   ¹ , Dr med ;   Antje Gottschalk   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Miriam Haverkamp   ⁴ , Dr med ;   Annette Hempen   ⁵ , MHBA ;   Christian Flügel-Bleienheuft   ⁶ , Dr med ;   Daniela Bause   ³ , MA ;   Henna Schulze-Steinen   ¹ , MD ;   Susanne Rademacher   ¹ , MSc ;   Jennifer Kistermann   ¹ , MSc ;   Stefan Hoch   ⁶ , Dipl.-Kfm. ;   Hans-Juergen Beckmann   ⁵ , Dr med ;   Christian Lanckohr   ³ , Dr med ;   Volker Lowitsch   ⁷ , Dipl.-Math. ;   Arne Peine   ¹ , Dr med ;   Fabian Juzek-Kuepper   ⁴ , Dr med ;   Carina Benstoem   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Kathrin Sperling   ^{3 *} , Dr med ;   Robert Deisz   ^{1 *} , Dr med

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

² School of Public Health, Department of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

³ University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

⁴ Division of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

⁵ Physician Network, Medizin und Mehr eG (MuM), Buende, Germany

⁶ Physician Network, Gesundheitsnetz Köln-Süd (GKS) e.V., Cologne, Germany

⁷ Healthcare IT Solutions GmbH, Aachen, Germany

*these authors contributed equally