A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Decision Aid in the ICU (VIDEO)

Mass General Brigham

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Respiratory Failure; Cardiac Event

Treatments: Behavioral: video decision aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01776333

2010-P-001820 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Decision Aid in the ICU in surrogates of admitted patients.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

usual care

No Intervention group

video arm

Experimental group

Description:

video decision aid intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: video decision aid