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Effects of Repeated Decision Making Among Surrogates of Seriously Ill Patients

NCT01723436 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2015-01-29

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Summary

Decision making capacity fatigues after repeated decisions similar to skeletal muscle. The result is decision fatigue, in which subsequent decisions are altered toward the status quo. Surrogates are at risk for decision fatigue yet it has not been studied. We propose a randomized study in the outpatient setting in surrogates and patients at high risk for needing to make complex decisions, in an effort to determine the impact of decision fatigue on surrogate self-control and subsequent choices.

Conditions

  • Chemotherapy

Interventions

OTHER

Hypothetical scenarios and related decisions

Surrogates are exposed to three hypothetical medical scenarios that require varying levels of decision making. We will be assessing how this experience alters their subsequent choice to forego life sustaining therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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