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

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

622

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2010

Primary Completion Date

October 31, 2014

Study Completion Date

October 31, 2014

Conditions
Chronic Critical IllnessProlonged Mechanical Ventilation
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Supportive Information Team Group

A minimum of two protocolized, interdisciplinary, informational support meetings led by palliative care clinicians will be arranged with family members or other patient surrogates who participate in decision-making for individual chronically critically ill patients.

Trial Locations (4)

10029

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

27599

University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill

27704

Durham Regional Medical Center, Durham

27710

Duke University School of Medicine, Durham

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

collaborator

University of North Carolina

OTHER

collaborator

Duke University

OTHER

lead

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

OTHER