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NCT Number: NCT03520023

Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine Together in the ICU

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Palliative Care Hospice Intensive Care Unit

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Mayo Clinic in Florida

Jacksonville, Florida, 32224, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

  • Age >80 years
  • Apache II score >14
  • SOFA score > 9
  • Pre-existing functional dependency (admitted from ALF, SNF, LTAC, etc.)
  • Late stage dementia (bed-bound, nonverbal, incontinent, or unable to self-nourish/tube feed)
  • Stage 4 metastatic disease
  • Consideration to place permanent feeding tube or trach
  • Recurrent ICU admissions in the past year
  • Post-cardiac arrest
  • End-stage disease (lung, ESRD, ESLD)
  • ICU perceived need

Treatment and study plan

Palliative care consult

Other

Consult of hospital palliative care service for those meeting study inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes

  1. Patient satisfaction

    Time frame: 1 year

    Measure will assessed by using the family satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit form (FS-ICU 24)

Secondary outcomes

  1. ICU length of stay

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. Ventilator Days

    Time frame: 1 year

  3. Percentage admission to hospice

    Time frame: 1 year

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Does Early vs Usual Palliative Care Consultation Augment the Critical Care Physician to Decrease Healthcare Utilization and Increase Caregiver Satisfaction

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
May 9, 2018
Registry last updated
Oct 20, 2020

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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