Critically Ill Patient's Capacity

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Status: Completed

Conditions: Decision Making; Critical Illness

Treatments: Other: Patient's capacity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01956045

CHU-0164

2011-A01492-39

Details and patient eligibility

About

How to determine the decision-making capacity of critically-ill patients remain unclear. The investigator study the differences between standardised evaluation and subjective medical evaluation.

Full description

After written information and consent, an independent, specially trained investigator interviews patients with a standardised test.

After written information and consent, an independent, specially trained investigator interviews residents, doctors and nurses in charge of the patient and ask them how they rates patients capacity.

Enrollment: 215 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Caregivers :

Doctors, hospital interns, nurses state of both sexes, aged 18 years or more working in Intensive Care, members of a social security system engaged in a clinic on the day of the assessment

• Patients :

Patients of both sexes, aged 18 years or more hospitalized in Intensive Care, members of a social security system

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

215 participants in 1 patient group

Decision making

Treatment:

Other: Patient's capacity