NCT05636371

Written Communication in the Intensive Care Unit

Impact of WRitten Communication on the ICU Team Experience

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 166 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rush University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to compare the experience of intensive care unit (ICU) families and care providers before and after the implementation of an approach whereby clinicians initiate written communication with families The main questions it aims to answer are 1. Is ICU care-provider initiated written communication feasible and acceptable to participants? 2. Does ICU care-provider initiated written communication affect the experience of families and care providers? Participants will complete surveys and participate in interviews during a 3 month pre-implementation phase and a 3 month post-implementation phase

Conditions

• Communication
• Satisfaction, Patient
• Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Written Communication	Written patient care updates provided to families of ICU patients each day

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-19
• Completion: 2023-07-01
• First posted: 2022-12-05
• Last updated: 2023-08-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States