NCT07093047

Effects of Italian Law 219/2017 in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

A National Survey on the Perceived Effects of Italian Law 219/2017 in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 172 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Padova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to investigate pediatric intensive care providers' knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with Law 219/2017 by means of a national multicentric non-interventional cross-sectional study.

Detailed description

In Italy in January 2018, Law 219/2017 came into effect after years of discussion regarding the possibility of refusing potentially life-saving health treatments, with its general principles being respect of life, human dignity, and personal self-determination, and introducing the concept of Advance Care Planning, the possibility for the patient to refuse medical treatment stating also that the patient cannot demand health treatments contrary to the law, professional ethics or good clinical-care practices letting the physician protected by the law in not providing interventions that he/she judges contrary to the patient's best health interest. This study aims to investigate pediatric intensive care providers' knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with Law 219/2017 by means of a national multicentric non-interventional cross-sectional study.

Conditions

• Refusal of Treatment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire administration	Participants are required to complete a survey collecting anonymous data

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-25
• Primary completion: 2026-02-01
• Completion: 2026-05-01
• First posted: 2025-07-30
• Last updated: 2025-11-28

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Italy