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UnknownNCT05722431

Ethical Deliberation in the Intensive Care Unit, Impact of Formalized Multidisciplinary Team Meetings, a Pilot Study

Délibération éthique en réanimation, Impact de la Mise en Place de réunions éthiques formalisées, Une étude Pilote

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
200 (estimated)
Sponsor
University Hospital, Tours · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Most patients who die in the intensive care unit do so after a withholding or withdrawing of life sustaining treatments (WWLST) decision. The implementation of formalized interdisciplinary team meetings for ethical deliberation in the ICU may improve nurses participation in WWLST decisions. The investigators decided to implement such team meetings in their ICU. At this occasion, the investigators will measure job satisfaction, job related frustration and ethical decision making climate climate.

Detailed description

Most patients who die in the intensive care unit do so after a withholding or withdrawing of life sustaining treatments (WWLST) decision. Because those decisions are value-laden, guidelines as well as french regulations recommend that they should involve not only medical doctors but also nurses. Despite that, nurses' involvement remains incomplete. Poor collaboration between doctors and nurses on ethical decisions is associated with job dissatisfaction, burnout and desire to quit. The implementation of formalized interdisciplinary team meetings for ethical deliberation in the ICU may improve nurses participation in WWLST decisions. For those reasons the investigators decided to implement such team meetings in their ICU. At this occasion, the investigators will measure job satisfaction, job related frustration and ethical decision making climate climate.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2023-02-15
Primary completion
2024-03-31
Completion
2024-07-31
First posted
2023-02-10
Last updated
2023-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05722431. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.