- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05710744
Mitigating Racial Disparities in Shared Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit
This is a non randomized pilot trial aimed to:
Test the feasibility of an intervention to support intensive care unit clinicians in conducting shared decision making conversations with families of patients with acute respiratory failure. The goal of this intervention is to mitigate racial disparities in shared decision making.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Brittany J McDowell, BSCR
- Phone Number: 919-613-7321
- Email: brittany.mcdowell@duke.edu
Study Locations
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North Carolina
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Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
- Recruiting
- Duke University Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Physician inclusion criterion:
- ICU attending physician with at least 6 weeks of clinical service time in the 12 months preceding and following enrollment
Physician exclusion criterion:
- Board certified in palliative care medicine
Patient inclusion criteria:
- Admitted to the ICU
- Being treated by a study physician currently and at least for the next 48 hours
- ≥ 18 years of age upon admission to hospital
- Mechanically ventilated ≥ 4 days
Patient exclusion criterion:
- Tracheostomy tube present or decision to pursue tracheostomy within next 7 days
- Has decision making capacity as assessed by medical team
- Extubation planned or death anticipated in next 24 hours
- Patients who are prisoners or are pregnant
- Awaiting organ transplantation during this hospitalization
- Acute respiratory failure due to progression of chronic neuromuscular disease
- No family decision maker available
Family member inclusion criteria:
- Identified by medical team as person most involved in medical decision making for the patient
- Confirmed to be patient's legally authorized representative
- Self-identifies as non-Hispanic, Black or White
- ≥ 18 years of age at time of consent
- Confirms conversational fluency in English
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Family Members of patients in the ICU
Family members will join routine meetings with the physicians treating with their critically ill loved ones.
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Other: ICU Physicians
Physicians will view a tip sheet containing information about best practices of shared decision making with diverse individuals.
Physicians will then conduct routine meetings with families of patients with acute respiratory failure.
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Physicians will view tip sheets containing best practices for shared decision making with diverse families.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Intervention acceptability as measured by single Likert-scaled item completed by physicians
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Likert-scaled single item, ranging from 1 (not acceptable) to 5 (completely acceptable)
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Demand for the intervention measured by the proportion of physicians who viewed the intervention
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Percentage of physicians who viewed intervention by email "read" receipts, range 0 to 100%
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Fidelity to intervention measured by proportion of tip sheet phrases used by physicians
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Proportion of tip sheet phrases used in family meeting as determined by review of audio-recorded family meeting, range 0 to 100%
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Practicality as measured by proportion of screen eligible participants enrolled per month
Time Frame: through study completion, up to 1 year
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Proportion screen eligible enrolled/month based on review of study logs, range 0 to 100%
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through study completion, up to 1 year
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Practicality as measured by time to complete physician or family surveys
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Time to complete physician or family surveys as measured by review of study logs, range 0 to 60 minutes
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Practicality as measured by dropout rate from study
Time Frame: through study completion, up to 1 year
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Dropout rate as ascertained by review of study logs, range 0 to 100%
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through study completion, up to 1 year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Decisional regret among families, measured by Decision Regret Scale
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Decision Regret Scale, range 5 (low regret) to 25 (high regret)
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Psychological distress among families, measured by Impact of Events Revised scale
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Impact of Events revised scale, range 0 (low stress) to 88 (extreme stress)
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Psychological distress among physicians, measured by moral distress scale
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Moral distress scale, range 0 (low distress) to 84 (extreme distress)
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Components of shared decision making, as measured by content analysis of family meeting recordings
Time Frame: through study completion, up to 1 year
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A qualitative data analysis of transcripts from family-physician meetings using 14-item shared decision making framework from PMID 20642362, range 0 (poor shared decision making) to 14 (ideal shared decision making)
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through study completion, up to 1 year
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Decisional conflict among families, measured by Decisional Conflict Scale
Time Frame: within 96 hours of signing study consent
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Decisional Conflict Scale, range 0 (low conflict) to 64 (high conflict)
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within 96 hours of signing study consent
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ICU utilization among patients, as measured by length of stay
Time Frame: through study completion, up to 1 year
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ICU length of stay ascertained from electronic medical record review
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through study completion, up to 1 year
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Deepshikha Ashana, M.D., Duke University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimated)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- Pro00111530
- 1K23HL164968-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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