Improving Decision Making for Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
Completed · Not applicable
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
- University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
- University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- University of Washington — Seattle, Washington, United States
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