Randomized Controlled Trial of a Decision Support Intervention About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Hospitalized Patients Who Have a High Risk of Death.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many seriously ill hospitalized patients have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as part of their care plan, but CPR is unlikely to achieve the goals of many seriously ill hospitalized patients.

Objective

To determine if a multicomponent decision support intervention changes documented orders for CPR in the medical record, compared to usual care.

Design

Open-label randomized controlled trial.

Patients

Patients on internal medicine and neurology wards at two tertiary care teaching hospitals who had a 1-year mortality greater than 10% as predicted with a validated model and whose care plan included CPR, if needed.

Intervention

Both the control and intervention groups received usual communication about CPR at the discretion of their care team. T

SUBMITTER: Kobewka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8390722 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature