Time Limited Trials to Reduce Non-Beneficial Intensive Care Unit Treatments

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

209

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 1, 2017

Primary Completion Date

December 23, 2019

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2019

Conditions
Critical IllnessCommunication
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Family meetings using time limited trials as default ICU communication and care planning approach

Providers will be trained using didactics, focus groups, and simulations using actors as family members. A TLT protocol and checklist will be used to facilitate family meetings. A coordinator will schedule family meetings. Routine feedback sessions will be held with the local champions.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual practice

Baseline practice of ICU communication and care planning

Trial Locations (3)

90033

Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles

90509

Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance

91342

Olive View Medical Center, Sylmar

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Los Angeles Department of Health Services

UNKNOWN

collaborator

University of California, Los Angeles

OTHER

lead

Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

OTHER

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