Mitigating Racial Disparities in Shared Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit

Intervention acceptability as measured by single Likert-scaled item completed by physicians

Likert-scaled single item, ranging from 1 (not acceptable) to 5 (completely acceptable)

Demand for the intervention measured by the proportion of physicians who viewed the intervention

Percentage of physicians who viewed intervention by email "read" receipts, range 0 to 100%

Fidelity to intervention measured by proportion of tip sheet phrases used by physicians

Proportion of tip sheet phrases used in family meeting as determined by review of audio-recorded family meeting, range 0 to 100%

Practicality as measured by proportion of screen eligible participants enrolled per month

Proportion screen eligible enrolled/month based on review of study logs, range 0 to 100%

Decisional regret among families, measured by Decision Regret Scale

Decision Regret Scale, range 5 (low regret) to 25 (high regret)

Psychological distress among families, measured by Impact of Events Revised scale

Impact of Events revised scale, range 0 (low stress) to 88 (extreme stress)

Psychological distress among physicians, measured by moral distress scale

Moral distress scale, range 0 (low distress) to 84 (extreme distress)

Components of shared decision making, as measured by content analysis of family meeting recordings

A qualitative data analysis of transcripts from family-physician meetings using 14-item shared decision making framework from PMID 20642362, range 0 (poor shared decision making) to 14 (ideal shared decision making)