Status:

COMPLETED

Evaluation of a Decision Aid About Life-sustaining Therapies

Lead Sponsor:

Laval University

Collaborating Sponsors:

Canadian Frailty Network

Conditions:

Decision Making

Resuscitation

Eligibility:

All Genders

65+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Introduction: Clinical practice guidelines recommend shared decision making (SDM) to facilitate goals-of-care discussions. This study will train clinicians about how to use a context-adapted decision ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • aged 65 and older,
  • capable of making their own healthcare decisions as determined by the attending intensivist's clinical judgment,
  • in need of a discussion about goals of care as determined by the attending intensivist's clinical judgment.

Exclusion

  • intubated patients,
  • patients facing urgent decisions,
  • patients cared by the principal investigator,
  • patients who do not read or speak French.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 23 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 22 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

26 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04034979

Start Date

May 23 2017

End Date

January 22 2018

Last Update

July 30 2019

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Centre de recherche de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis

Lévis, Quebec, Canada, G6V 3Z1