Clinical trials: End of Life Decision Making
Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest
End-of-life Practices in 2019 vs. 2014
In 2014, the authors conducted a survey of key opinion leaders on ethical resuscitation practices in 31 European Countries. The authors administered a comprehensive questionnaire to 1-2 "experts" from each country…
- Conditions
- Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest, Ethics, Narrative
- Trial name
- NCT04078815
- Where
- 2 sites in Belgium, Greece
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
HIV
Longitudinal Pediatric Palliative Care: Quality of Life & Spiritual Struggle
Our goal is to advance palliative care to adolescents and their families. We hope our study will decrease suffering (psychological, spiritual, physical) and increase quality of life (QOL).
- Trial name
- FACE (NCT01289444)
- Testing
- FAmily CEntered (FACE) ACP, Healthy Living Control
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Decision Making, Terminal Illness
Organ Donation and End-of-life Decisions
Variation in organ donation after brain death (DBD) per million population varies markedly between countries, within country regions, between and within intensive care units (ICU).
- Conditions
- Decision Making, Terminal Illness, Tissue and Organ Procurement
- Trial name
- NCT04131140
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 12,072 people
- Sponsor
- Swedish Intensive Care Registry
Death
Advance Directives and End-of-life Decision Making in Intensive Care Medicine in Germany
Description of the decision making process as well as the practices of end of life care in an ICU of a German university hospital during the period when changes of German legislation occurred.
- Trial name
- NCT01294189
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 224 people
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Neonatal Mortality, Maternal Mortality
Impact of New Tools of Simulation-enhanced Peer Learning on Neonatal and Maternal Mortality
In the vast majority of developing nations, frontline birth attendants are often the only care providers responsible for newborn care including newborn resuscitation, thermal care, feeding and administration of medications.
- Trial name
- Sim-II (NCT04904380)
- Testing
- Active peer learning
- Volunteers
- 3,456 people
- Sponsor
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Cancer
Building Evidence for Effective Palliative/End of Life Care for Teens With Cancer
To test the efficacy of FACE-TC on key outcomes, the investigators propose using an intent-to-treat, longitudinal, prospective, multi-site, randomized controlled trial (RCT) design.
- Trial name
- FACE-TC (NCT02693665)
- Testing
- FAmily CEntered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 260 people
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Palliative Care
Evaluation of an Intervention Designed to Enhance the Quality of Decision Support Provided to Patients Making Decisions About End-of-life Place of Care
Most dying cancer patients would prefer a home death yet die in an institution. Patients can experience uncertainty when weighing practical considerations, concern for others, and their personal ratings about the desirability and…
- Trial name
- NCT00614003
- Testing
- Decision support skills building Intervention
- Where
- 5 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Severe Sepsis
End-of-life Decision-making in Patients With Sepsis-related Organ Failure
The care of patients with sepsis-related organ failure on the intensive care unit (ICU) often includes end-of-life decision (EOL-D) and communication of such decisions to relatives.
- Trial name
- EIDECS (NCT01247792)
- Testing
- SOPs for decision-making and communication
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 174 people
- Sponsor
- Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Germany
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Metastatic Cancer
Improving End-of-life Care by Continuing Medical Education and Electronic Decision Making Support for General Practitioners
Background: Optimizing the basic palliative care has been shown beneficial to patients in end-of-life care, the general practitioner (GP) having a pivotal role in the health care system, providing comprehensive and continued…
- Trial name
- NCT02050256
- Testing
- continuing medical education and electronic decision support, education and electronic support
- Where
- Denmark
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Maternal Death, Neonatal Death
Evaluating the Effects of SMS Text Messaging Support System Among Frontline Health Workers in Ghana
Introduction Maternal and neonatal mortality continue to be to be prominent public health issues in sub Saharan Africa including Ghana, with slow progress made towards attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 \& 5.
- Conditions
- Maternal Death, Neonatal Death, Postpartum Haemorrhage, Pre-eclampsia
- Trial name
- Accelerate (NCT02468310)
- Testing
- Maternal and neonatal emergency protocols
- Where
- Ghana
- Volunteers
- 65,831 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hannah Brown Amoakoh