Effects of Italian Law 219/2017 in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

University of Padova

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Refusal of Treatment

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire administration

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07093047

PES-219-PICU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate pediatric intensive care providers' knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with Law 219/2017 by means of a national multicentric non-interventional cross-sectional study.

Full description

In Italy in January 2018, Law 219/2017 came into effect after years of discussion regarding the possibility of refusing potentially life-saving health treatments, with its general principles being respect of life, human dignity, and personal self-determination, and introducing the concept of Advance Care Planning, the possibility for the patient to refuse medical treatment stating also that the patient cannot demand health treatments contrary to the law, professional ethics or good clinical-care practices letting the physician protected by the law in not providing interventions that he/she judges contrary to the patient's best health interest.

This study aims to investigate pediatric intensive care providers' knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with Law 219/2017 by means of a national multicentric non-interventional cross-sectional study.

Enrollment: 172 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthcare personnel employed in a pediatric intensive care units

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

172 participants in 1 patient group

Healthcare personnel

Description:

Healthcare personnel employed in pediatric intensive care units

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire administration