Decision Making in Neonatology : a Qualitative Study (PRODA)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Premature Birth

Treatments: Other: semi-structured interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03323970

P/2014/219

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to describe and understand the decision making process in neonatology in situations of limiting of withdraw life sustaining treatments, by conducting interviews with physicians from one neonatology unit.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physicians in charge of new born babies for whom a decision making regarding limiting or withdrawing treatments is emerging.
• physicians' informed consent to participate to an interview
• parents' informed consent to collect data concerning their new born.

Exclusion criteria

• Not fluent French speaker

Trial design

7 participants in 1 patient group

Physicians

Treatment:

Other: semi-structured interviews