Effect of the 3 Wishes Program on Bereaved Families' End-of-Life Care Perceptions
Completed
Conditions studied: End of Life, Death
In brief
Dying in the intensive care unit (ICU) can be a source of trauma for patients and their families. The 3 Wishes Program is a palliative care initiative in which healthcare workers fulfills small wishes to provide a personalized, humanizing experience at the end of life (EOL) for dying patient and their families. The investigators' objective is to assess families' ratings of EOL care for ICU decedents who received the 3WP as part of their EOL care versus usual care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05128799
- Run by
- University of California, Los Angeles
- People needed
- 314
- Starts
- 2019-10-08
- Expected to finish
- 2021-11-09
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-12-02
Who can join
Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For participation in the 3WP, if there was a decision to withdraw life support or the health care team agreed that the patient's probability of dying in the hospital or on discharge to hospice was >95%
- For surveys, next of kin/surrogate of a patient who died in the ICU during the study period
- For surveys, speaks English
You may not qualify if…
- <21 years old
- does not speak English
Where it is running
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
- UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center — Santa Monica, California, United States
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