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Impact of Bed Availability and Cognitive Load on Intensive Care Unit Bed Allocation: a Vignette-based Clinical Trial

NCT02430454 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 178

Last updated 2016-01-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Decisions about ICU beds allocations are made everyday, specially in countries with scarcity of ICU beds, such as Brazil. ICU triage, most of the time, is not structured, which may lead to faulty decision making, possibly leading to bad clinical outcomes. It has been shown that external factors may influence the decision making process. The investigators intend to evaluate the impact of bed availability and cognitive load on the ICU bed allocation process by submitting groups of individuals to a vignette based randomized controlled trial simulating conditions with or without increased cognitive load and conditions with or without scarcity of ICU beds.

Conditions

  • There Are no Specific Conditions Under Study
  • This Study Evaluates the Clinical Decision-Making Associated With Intensive Care Units Rationing

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Increased cognitive load

simulated conditions to increase cognitive load: encourage first impression, time-limit, distractions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joao G Ramos, MD · Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2016-06-30

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