End Of Life in the Critically Ill patiEnt

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT03392857
• Date of registration: 18/12/2017
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: French Society for Intensive Care
• Public title: End Of Life in the Critically Ill patiEnt EOLE
• Scientific title: End Of Life in the Critically Ill patiEnt
• Date of first enrolment: March 28, 2018
• Target sample size: 514
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03392857
• Study type: Observational

Countries of recruitment

Belgium, Canada, France, Monaco, Tunisia

Contacts

• Name: Florence Boissier, MD
• Affiliation: French Intensive Care Society

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Caregivers of intensive care unit whose patient has recently deceased

Exclusion Criteria:

- Refusal of participation by caregivers

- Refusal of participation by family of deceased patient

- Patient in cardiac arrest at the time of ICU admission.

- Age of deceased patient was under 18 years

- Patient in brain death



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Terminal Illness

Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Intervention(s)

Other: Assessment by caregivers of the quality of the end of life in intensive care units

Primary Outcome(s)

15 items questionnaire CAESAR [Time Frame: Depending of end-of-life duration, usually 6 hours.]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Variables associated with the perception by caregivers of end-of-life quality [Time Frame: time needed for the enrollment of caregivers of 5 to 15 consecutive deceased patients per center (depending on the size of the center): usually 1 month]

Analogic visual scale (0 to 10) [Time Frame: Depending of end-of-life duration, usually 6 hours.]

Secondary ID(s)

EOLE

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

CHU Nantes