NCT06605079

Enhancing Palliative Care in ICU

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,040 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to reduce the suffering in intensive care through palliative care consultations.

Detailed description

This project investigates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of palliative care consultations in the Intensive care unit. Charité will implement the Working Package 2 "Europe-wide harmonized and recommended palliative care practice for ICU" of the approved HORIZON funding application EPIC, to which this ethics application refers. An accompanying anonymous employee survey (doctors/nurses) is conducted once in the intervention phase and once in the control phase in all study centers (see secondary endpoints 57-68 and 71).

Conditions

• Palliative Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Complex intervention	A complex intervention is carried out in the intensive care unit. This includes: * telemedical consultations by specialized palliative care experts from external institutions for the respective hospital staff * the training of hospital staff in the intensive care unit in basic palliative care and * the use of checklists for the early identification of eligible patients and the structured recording of palliative care needs. The efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the complex intervention will be investigated using a controlled clinical trial in a cluster-randomized controlled design. In addition, as part of the multicenter clinical study in WP 2 staff, patients and relatives will also be surveyed.
OTHER	Routine treatment	No complex intervention is established, just routine procedures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-10
• Primary completion: 2027-05-01
• Completion: 2027-08-01
• First posted: 2024-09-20
• Last updated: 2025-09-30

Locations

31 sites across 5 countries: Czechia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy