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The Conflicts of Ethics and Law on Patient's Surrogate

NCT ID: NCT01267890

Last Updated: 2010-12-29

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-12-31

Study Completion Date

2011-07-31

Brief Summary

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This study is a prospective cross-sectional survey study. The investigators developed self-administrated questionnaire and recruit 120 physicians in two hospitals and 60 lawyers from some law firms to this study.

To realize and compare the opinions of physicians and lawyers about controversial decision-making of surrogate.

Detailed Description

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This study provides three real scenarios regarding dilemma between ethics and law when patient's surrogate may not represent patient's best interest：1. Parents ask physician resect their mentally handicapped daughter's uterus. 2. A son refuse physician's suggestion of surgical treatment for his mother, instead, wishes donating his mother's kidney to his son. 3. A mother decides to give up treatment for her son's head injury because of his rebel behavior before.

T-test, ANOVA and Logistic Regression will be used to analyze in this study.

Conditions

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Physician's Role

Keywords

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ethics law surrogate conflict

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* resident
* visiting Staff
* chief resident

Exclusion Criteria

* intern
* clerk
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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China Medical University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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China Medical University Hospital

Locations

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China Medical University Hospital

Taichung, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Chih-Jaan Tai, Associate Professor

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 04-22053366

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Chih-Jaan Tai, Associate Professor

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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CMU-DMR99-IRB-254

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id