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Improving Partnerships With Family Members of ICU Patients

NCT02920086 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2019-09-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve the outcomes of critically ill older patients and the health outcomes of their families by capacitating and partnering with families in optimizing patient/family centered care.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Education Program

* The OPTimal nutrition by Informing and Capacitating family members of best practices (OPTICS) intervention * Nutritional education will be provided to ICU patents' families by a dietitian * Tracking of nutritional information by family * Encouragement for families to advocate for two or more Oral Nutritional Supplements per day for the patients (approximately 400 kcal/day)

OTHER

Decision Support Program

* Families will be provided with a web-based decision support tool (My ICU Guide) * Families will meet with the ICU medical team early in ICU stay to review goals of care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Griffith University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Clinical Evaluation Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daren Heyland, MD · Clinical Evaluation Research Unit

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-09
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • United States
  • Australia
  • Canada

Study Locations

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