This study is looking at whether having a hospice and palliative care practitioner (a specialist in comfort care and support for serious illness) directly working in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) can improve care for critically ill patients. The practitioner will offer timely consultations based on a patient's needs and estimated risk. Researchers will compare patients who receive care with the embedded practitioner to those in another MICU and to patients treated before the study began. The goal is to see if this approach improves how long patients stay in the ICU and how often their code status (decisions about life support) is adjusted. You may be able to join if you are at least 18 years old and admitted to one of the MICUs at the study's hospital. The study plans to include 2600 patients, but its current status is unclear.

Study design

This is an interventional study that plans to enroll 2600 participants. It compares patients receiving care with an embedded palliative care practitioner to those in another ICU and historical patients.

What's involved

Not specified in the trial record.

Compensation

Not stated in the trial record.

Follow-up

Your ICU length of stay and code status de-escalation will be measured from enrollment until hospital discharge, assessed for up to 1 year.

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