Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: A Randomized Control Trial (RCT)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Chronic Critical Illness, Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

In brief

The purpose of this study is to test a communication intervention to support family decision-making for patients with chronic critical illness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01230099

Run by

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

People needed

622

Starts

2010-10-01

Expected to finish

2014-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-10-29

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mechanically ventilated ≥ 7 days
• Mechanically ventilated without > 96 hour interruption
• Age ≥ 21 years
• ICU MD does not expect patient will die within 72 hours
• ICU MD does not expect patient will be liberated from the ventilator within 72 hours.

You may not qualify if…

• Previous admission to study ICU this hospitalization Mechanically ventilated at outside hospital for > 7 days before transfer
• Chronic Neuromuscular (NM) Disease
• Trauma
• Burn
• Previous palliative care consultation in this hospitalization
• No family or other surrogate decision-maker
• Family not available
• Surrogate lacks English proficiency
• Physician refused permission for research staff to approach the family

Where it is running

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, New York, United States
• University of North Carolina School of Medicine — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Durham Regional Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University School of Medicine — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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