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Checklist-guided Shared Decision-making for Code Status Discussions in Medical Inpatients.

NCT03872154 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2663

Last updated 2024-03-08

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Summary

This cluster-randomized, multicenter trial is designed to investigate the effect of checklist-guided shared decision-making including decision aids and communication of expected outcome on patients' decision regarding their code status, and at the same time, if it improves decision-making quality as judged by patient's decisional comfort, patient knowledge and involvement in decision-making and patient satisfaction. Patients in whom resuscitation is considered as futile will be treated separately in an ancillary project. In these patients a checklist to communicate the futility and the medical consequences will be used.

Conditions

  • Code Status Discussions With Medical In-patients

Interventions

OTHER

Checklist-guided shared decision-making

Physicians will receive a checklist and a decision aid for shared decision-making during code status discussion. Ancillary project: Physicians will receive a checklist to communicate the futility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Clinical Trial Unit, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sabina Hunziker, Prof · University Hospial Basel

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-13
Primary Completion
2023-03-01
Completion
2023-04-14

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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