Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine Together in the ICU

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Palliative Care; Intensive Care Unit; Hospice
• Interventions: Other: Palliative Care Consult

• Registration Number: NCT03520023
• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic

Brief Summary

Will earlier palliative care medicine consultation in the ICU result in decreased length of stay in the ICU and hospital, as well as, increased patient and family satisfaction. Secondary questions to be answered is if this early consultation changes ICU and hospital death, discharge destinations, hospice admissions, code status changes, and withdrawal of life sustaining interventions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-04-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-05-08
• Study First Posted: 2018-05-09
• Study Start: 2018-09-04
• Primary Completion: 2020-03-01
• Study Completion: 2020-03-01
• Status Verified: 2020-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-10-16
• Last Update Posted: 2020-10-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 95

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental	Palliative Care Consult	Early palliative care consult based upon meeting study inclusion criteria

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient satisfaction	1 year	Measure will assessed by using the family satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit form (FS-ICU 24)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Ventilator Days	1 year
ICU length of stay	1 year
Percentage admission to hospice	1 year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mayo Clinic in Florida; 🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida, United States