Enrollment for this IRB-approved randomized trial (IRB 00082272, PI: Turnbull) was completed 11/18/2016.  Funding for this study was provided by the non-profit Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The primary trial manuscript was published at Critical Care Medicine and is Open Access. The visual abstract below can be downloaded here.

A secondary analysis was conducted examining intensivist responses to a surrogate decision-maker directly soliciting a loved one’s prognostic information. The manuscript was published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society in August 2019 and is Open Access.