Mobile App-Facilitated Collaborative Palliative Care Intervention for Critically Ill Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Few person-centered, scalable models of collaborative intensive care unit (ICU) clinician-palliative care specialist care exist.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a collaborative palliative care intervention compared to usual care among family members of patients in the ICU.

Design, setting, and participants

This parallel-group randomized clinical trial with patient-level randomization was conducted between April 2021 and September 2023. The study was set at 6 medical and surgical ICUs in 1 academic hospital and 1 community hospital. The study participants included critically ill older adult patients with 1 of 11 poor outcome phenotypes, their family members with elevated palliative care needs, and their attending ICU physicians.

Intervention

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SUBMITTER: Cox CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11791708 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature