Facilitating communication for critically ill patients and their family members: Study protocol for two randomized trials implemented in the U.S. and France.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critically-ill patients and their families suffer a high burden of psychological symptoms due, in part, to many transitions among clinicians and settings during and after critical illness, resulting in fragmented care. Communication facilitators may help.

Design and intervention

We are conducting two cluster-randomized trials, one in the U.S. and one in France, with the goal of evaluating a nurse facilitator trained to support, model, and teach communication strategies enabling patients and families to secure care consistent with patients' goals, beginning in ICU and continuing for 3 months.

Participants

We will randomize 376 critically-ill patients in the US and 400 in France to intervention or usual care. Eligible patients have a risk of hospital mortalit

SUBMITTER: Curtis JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429114 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature