Decision Making in Neonatology : a Qualitative Study

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon7 enrolled

Overview

This study aimed to describe and understand the decision making process in neonatology in situations of limiting of withdraw life sustaining treatments, by conducting interviews with physicians from one neonatology unit.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Premature Birth

Interventions

semi-structured interviewsOTHER

individual semi-structured interviews

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Physicians in charge of new born babies for whom a decision making regarding limiting or withdrawing treatments is emerging. * physicians' informed consent to participate to an interview * parents' informed consent to collect data concerning their new born. Exclusion Criteria: \- Not fluent French speaker

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

semi-structured interviews

qualitative data analysis - theorical saturation

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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