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Organ Donation and End-of-life Decisions

NCT04131140 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 12072

Last updated 2019-10-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Variation in organ donation after brain death (DBD) per million population varies markedly between countries, within country regions, between and within intensive care units (ICU). These circumstances also apply to end-of-life decisions in the ICU.

The investigators studied all ICU deaths in Sweden between 2014-2017 in ICUs that, as routine, registered treatment plan (no treatment limitation and/or treatment limitation) and DBD.

The investigators hypothesized that ICUs with high proportion of treatment limitation (withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment) also had less proportion of DBD.

Conditions

  • Decision Making
  • Terminal Illness
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swedish Intensive Care Registry

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas ÅI Nolin, MD · The Swedish Intensive Care Registry (http://icuregswe.org)

  • Nolin ÅI Thomas, MD · The Swedish Intensive Care Registry (http://icuregswe.org)

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-01
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2018-03-22

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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