A Qualitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Critical Care Trial Enrollment Among Surrogates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to identify factors that influence surrogate decision makers' decisions to enroll patients into a critical care randomized controlled trial.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study embedded within a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of a behavioral nudge intervention for surrogate decision makers on enrollment rate in a sham ventilatory weaning trial among patients with acute respiratory failure. Participants were adult surrogate decision makers of patients receiving mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure. The study was conducted in 10 ICUs across 2 urban hospitals within an academic medical center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanaia, United States. Immediately following their trial enrollment decision, surrogate decision makers we

SUBMITTER: Krutsinger DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9815468 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature