ICU Triage Practices in a Cancer Hospital

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Intensive Care Units, Triage

In brief

The primary objective of this study is aimed at analyzing the ICU triage practices of clinicians at a cancer hospital with and without the use of an algorithm-based triage tool, and to assess whether or not the triage tool improves the consensus amongst practioners on the prioritization of patients for ICU admission. Secondary objectives include assessment of whether or not triage practices based on guidelines correlate with what is done in actual practice.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03401411

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

257

Starts

2014-11-17

Expected to finish

2018-02-20

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-28

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Study participant must be a health care provider who frequently refers or accepts oncologic patients to the ICU

You may not qualify if…

• none

Where it is running

• Latino-American Critical Care Trial Network (LACTIN) — Houston, Texas, United States
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
• 5th International Oncology Course Conference — Manta, Manabí Province, Ecuador

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