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Rounding Summaries for Families of Critically Ill Patients

NCT03969810 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 252

Last updated 2021-03-09

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Summary

Many patients in intensive care units (ICUs) rely on family members or surrogates to make medical decisions on their behalf. One of the recommended ways to improve a surrogate's experience is to invite him or her to participate in daily, multidisciplinary ICU rounds. In practice, this is often a challenging way for clinicians to engage with the patient's surrogates.

Surrogates of non-decisional ICU patients will be randomized to receive a written rounding summary every day or every other day that the patient is in the ICU. The summary will be organized as follows for each of the most important ICU problems: 1) Description of the problem, 2) Ways the ICU team is addressing the problem i.e. consultations, diagnostic tests, and treatments. 3) An assessment of whether the problem is improving or worsening.

The investigators hypothesize that surrogates who receive written rounding summaries will be more satisfied with ICU care than surrogates who receive usual care. Satisfaction will be measured by the Critical Care Family Needs Inventory (CCFNI) questionnaire.

Conditions

  • Acute Respiratory Failure
  • Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
  • Communication

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Rounding Summary

Written summary of rounds

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rush University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-01
Primary Completion
2021-01-11
Completion
2021-02-12

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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