Advance Directive Implementation and Scientific Evaluation Study
Advance Directive Implementation and Scientific Evaluation (ADVISE) Study
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
2,000 participants
Aug 3, 2021
OBSERVATIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study is to better understand the use of advance directives, their implementation in the intensive care unit, and their effects on outcome. Data from the digital medical records of all consecutive adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit at the University Hospital Basel from 2011 to 2023 are retrospectively extracted. Descriptive analyses will be applied to report the proportion of patients with an advance directive. In-hospital outcome (defined as survival, Glasgow Outcome Score, and return of neurologic function to premorbid baseline) will be compared between patients with and without advanced directives
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- adult patients treated for more than 48 hours in the intensive care unit (post-operative or internal medicine) of the University Hospital Basel in the years 2011-2023
Exclusion Criteria2
- Patients with documented refusal of the general consent.
- Patients who have been treated in the intensive care unit for less than 48 hours
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Interventions
health related personal data extraction from digital medical records (i.e. patient characteristics; start, end and duration of hospitalization and ICU stay; admitted from another hospital, nursing home or comes with emergency medical Service; formal data of written advance directives; data of unwritten advance directive; information on the contents of the advance directives (regarding life-worthy conditions, health care agents, resuscitation, pain management, artificial nutrition, hydration, surgeries, renal replacement, mechanical circulation, mechanical ventilation, pacemaker, administration of blood products, treatment of infections, organ donation, autopsy); patient history; clinical data; therapeutic features; outcome at discharge; knowledge regarding relatives and their level of information about the advance directives; discussion of euthanasia and self-determination of dying.
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NCT04348318