Improving Decision Making for Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

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Conditions studied: Surrogate Decision Makers, Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

In brief

Deciding about prolonged life support for critically ill patients can be very difficult. Therefore, the investigators are doing a study to see if an internet-based decision aid can improve the quality of decision making for substitute decision makers of patients who are in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01751061
Run by
Duke University
People needed
416
Starts
2013-01-01
Expected to finish
2017-01-06
Last updated by the study team
2019-05-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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