Prognosticating Outcomes and Nudging Decisions With Electronic Records in the ICU Trial
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Official title
Behavioral Economic Approaches to Improve Palliative Care for Critically Ill Patients
Brief summary
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This is a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster randomized trial testing the real-world effectiveness of two different electronic health record (EHR) behavioral interventions in improving a number of patient- and family-centered processes and outcomes of care among seriously ill hospitalized patients. The investigators hypothesize that outcomes can be improved without raising costs by requiring intensive care unit clinicians to (i) document a prognostic estimate and (ii) provide a justification if they choose not to offer patients the option of comfort-oriented care. To test this hypothesis the investigators will conduct a 33-month trial at 17 intensive care units in 10 hospitals using the same Cerner EHR within Atrium Health System.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03139838
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 3,500 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 1, 2018 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Apr 24, 2021 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2022 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Aug 8, 2022
2018 – 2022
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 10
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 6
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolinas HealthCare System Stanly | Albemarle | North Carolina | 28001 | — |
| Carolinas HealthCare System, NorthEast | Charlotte | North Carolina | 28025 | — |
| Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte | North Carolina | 28203 | — |
| Atrium Health CMC-Mercy | Charlotte | North Carolina | 28207 | — |
| Atrium Health Pineville | Charlotte | North Carolina | 28210 | — |
| Atrium Health University City | Charlotte | North Carolina | 28262 | — |
| Atrium Health Lincoln | Lincolnton | North Carolina | 28092 | — |
| Atrium Health Union | Monroe | North Carolina | 28112 | — |
| Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge-Morganton | Morganton | North Carolina | 28655 | — |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | Shelby | North Carolina | 28150 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 8, 2022 · Synced Oct 18, 2026
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