Cardiac Event, Respiratory Failure
Conditions
Keywords
ICU
Brief summary
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Decision Aid in the ICU in surrogates of admitted patients.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALvideo decision aid
Sponsors
Massachusetts General Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
21 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
\- Age 65 or older Patient does not have the capacity to make decisions Patient admitted to the ICU with life threatening illness including advanced heart, renal, lung, gastrointestinal and oncologic disease Patient has English speaking representative to make decisions on his/her behalf Patient critically ill and unlikely to survive to hospital discharge
Exclusion criteria
\- Patients who are imminently dying and admitted to the ICU are excluded Wards if the state
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| preference for goal of care regarding medical interventions (e.g., CPR, intubation, etc.) | at baseline admission to the ICU during family meeting up to one week |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| level of medical care delivered to patient at time of death or discharge from the ICU | at time of death or discharge from the ICU up to one week |
| anxiety and depression | anxiety and depression at follow up phone call at 3 months after ICU death or discharge |
| satisfaction with ICU experience | after 3 months from time of death or discharge from ICU |
| number of medical interventions during ICU stay | during time period in the ICU up to one week |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactAngelo Volandes
Outcome results
None listed