Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03520023
Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine Together in the ICU
Does Early vs Usual Palliative Care Consultation Augment the Critical Care Physician to Decrease Healthcare Utilization and Increase Caregiver Satisfaction
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 95 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
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.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Palliative Care Consult | Consult of hospital palliative care service for those meeting study inclusion criteria |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-09-04
- Primary completion
- 2020-03-01
- Completion
- 2020-03-01
- First posted
- 2018-05-09
- Last updated
- 2020-10-20
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03520023. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.