Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT01241955

Conditions

Admission to ICU

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

video decision aid

Study Details

Brief summary:

To compare the decision making of family members of patients admitted to the ICU in regards to their CPR preferences for their loved ones with and without the use of a video decision aid.

Conditions

Admission to ICU

Study ID

NCT01241955

Start date

Feb, 2011

Status verified date

Nov, 2020

Primary completion date

Feb, 2012

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

patient admitted to ICU and unable to make decisions with a known surrogate decision maker

Exclusion Criteria:

Cannot speak English

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: verbal description of CPR

verbal description of CPR

experimental: Video decision aid

Video decision aid of CPR

Interventions

video decision aid

video of CPR

Primary outcome measure

  • CPR preferences [ Time Frame: within 48 hours of ICU admission ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114

Contacts

Angelo Volandes, MD

617-643-4266avolandes@partners.org

Principal Investigator:

Angelo Volandes, MS

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

Nov 18, 2020

Last verified

Nov, 2020

Keywords

  • CPR

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2020-11-18.