U.S., April 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06910176) titled 'Confirming And Notifying Death' on March 27.
Brief Summary: Most physicians are confronted with the death of patients during their practice, often as early as residency. It is their legal responsibility to certify a patient's death, as well as often to notify their loved ones.
Yet, these duties currently receive little or no specific training during the various cycles of medical education.
This task is not easy, however, and young professionals experience it with difficulty. Literature data show that residents are confronted with death late in their medical education and that they are insufficiently prepared when they have to perf...