The effect of the Palliative Care Team on quality indicators for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A randomised, controlled trial

Concord Repatriation General Hospital0 sites180 target enrollmentMarch 27, 2006

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

March 27, 2006

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•1\. Patient has a pre\-terminal or terminal condition and the treating ICU physician, and parent treating teams believe that continuing current treatment or escalating treatment is futile, and unlikely to alter the overall outcome. 2\. The ICU physician deems it appropriate that a Not\-For\-Resuscitation (NFR) order be written for the patient. 3\. The patient is unlikely to survive more than 1 week if treatment is either not escalated, or treatment is withdrawn. 4\. The patient is expected to stay in the ICU for at least another 2 days. 5\. A palliative care team is available to be involved in end\-of\-life care within the following 24 hours. 6\. Patient or surrogate is willing to consent to completing the two questionnaires to be administered during the palliation process. 7\. There is no reason to believe that the patient or family would object to palliative care team involvement in the patient’s end\-of\-life care.

•1 The patient is unable to give consent or participate in the decision\-making process, and has no readily available legal surrogate decision\-maker, or is under Guardianship Board control.2 A palliative care team is not available to see the patient within the next 24 hours.3 The patient is not likely to survive to palliative care team review.4 The patient or surrogates, or treating medical teams have already specifically requested palliative care involvement in end\-of\-life care.5 No independent intensive care consultant is available to approach family for consent.