NCT02721810.

Trial name or title	Patient Engagement Initiative (PEI)
Methods	RCT
Participants	Inclusion criteria Licensed physicians At least 4 weeks of clinical work in an I.C.U. in the U.S.A. during the past 12 months Exclusion criteria < 25 years old Non‐English speaking Primarily practicing medicine outside the USA
Interventions	No intervention: control Prompts standard to rounds or electronic medical records Experimental: prompting Intervention Prompting consideration of 3‐month functional outcome
Outcomes	Primary outcome Presence of acceptable treatment option as assessed by a checklist completed by clinical colleges. Secondary outcomes Level of conflict with proxy with a previously validated single question Level of shared decision‐making measured using CollaboRATE scale Prevalence of communication skills for involving ICU proxies in treatment decisions assessed by a checklist completed by clinical colleges Medical interactions assessed using the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS) Prevalence of the discussed option of stopping life support as assessed by blinded assessors Prevalence of conveying prognosis as assessed by blinded assessors Level of shared decision‐making measured using CollaboRATE scale as assessed by blinded assessors The Observer OPTIONS5 measure completed by blinded assessors Consulting services requested by study participants
Starting date	October 2016
Contact information	Alison E Turnbull, DVM,MPH,PhD, (410)‐955‐2190, turnbull@jhmi.edu
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