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Influence of alterations in foregoing life-sustaining treatment practices on a clinical sepsis trial. The HA-1A Sepsis Study Group.

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OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the timing of foregoing life-sustaining treatments in patients enrolled in a sepsis trial and to determine their influence on patient outcome and trial results. DESIGN:Subset of patients in a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. SETTING:Twenty-three academic medical centers. PATIENTS:Enrolled patients who had life-sustaining therapies withheld or withdrawn. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:The number of patients, types of disorders and interventions, reasons, and timing of withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments and their effect on mortality and trial results were assessed. Foregoing of life-sustaining therapies took place in 117 (22%) of 543 patients and occurred within 72 hrs of study drug administration in 38 (32%) patients. Withholding treatment (60%) was more common than withdrawing treatment (40%), but withdrawing treatment was more frequent (51%) than withholding treatment (20%) in the first 72 hrs of the trial (p < .01). Sixty-one (52%) patients had severe underlying disorders with a poor prognosis. The hospital mortality rate was 94% (of the 117 patients). The mean time (SEM) from withholding or withdrawing of treatment until death was 2.83 +/- 0.57 and 0.32 +/- 0.13 days, respectively (p < .001). Patients who had therapies foregone in the first 24, 48, and 72 hrs after receiving the study drug had higher mortality rates in the first 72 hrs (p < .01). CONCLUSIONS:A substantial number of patients enrolled in a sepsis trial had severe underlying diseases and had foregoing of therapies early in the course of the trial, which led to a higher early mortality rate. Enrollment of patients in clinical trials with severe underlying disorders with a high likelihood of having therapies foregone may bias the potential for showing the efficacy of new therapeutic modalities.

journal_name

Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

Sprung CL,Eidelman LA,Pizov R,Fisher CJ Jr,Ziegler EJ,Sadoff JC,Straube RC,McCloskey RV

doi

10.1097/00003246-199703000-00002

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-03-01 00:00:00

pages

383-7

issue

eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

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Influence of alterations in foregoing life-sustaining treatment practices on a clinical sepsis trial. The HA-1A Sepsis Study Group.