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Improving Decision Making for Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

NCT01751061 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 416

Last updated 2019-05-02

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Summary

Deciding about prolonged life support for critically ill patients can be very difficult. Therefore, the investigators are doing a study to see if an internet-based decision aid can improve the quality of decision making for substitute decision makers of patients who are in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Conditions

  • Surrogate Decision Makers
  • Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Decision aid

A web-based decision aid to assist surrogate decision makers in prolonged mechanical ventilation decisions

OTHER

Usual care

usual ICU care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Pittsburgh

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Washington

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher E Cox, MD MPH · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-03
Completion
2017-01-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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