Copyright © American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Other events such as Gridlife offer a time attack event taking place in various locations across North America. The competition is divided into various groups based on car specification. The level varies from everyday driven vehicles to non road legal race cars.

Each class also has its own set of rules and regulations on car specifications as the higher class one goes the less regulations one is faced with. The hot lap, however, will not count towards the overall trackbattle event. There is also a seasonal championship with every class having a champion based on points earned throughout the season.

In Germany, the German Timeattack Masters is a time attack championship, held since It started being limited to Japanese cars only and opened up to vehicles of all makes in From to the championship consisted of four events, in that number increased to five for the overall championship.

Events are held on various racing tracks, most of them located in Germany , like the Nürburgring Grand Prix course, the Lausitzring and the Hockenheimring. Additionally, for years, the TT Circuit Assen is used in cooperation with the Dutch Time Attack Masters. Formerly, races also took place on the German course Oschersleben.

Each event consists of Warm Up, Qualifying and the Hotlap finals, with Qualifying rank and Hotlap rank counting for the overall championship. The Hotlap is only driven by the five fastest starters from the Qualifying.

Groups are split according to car specifications, mainly regarding severity of modifications and aerodynamics. With more powerful classes, safety regulations are also tighter. Classes range from Club -class, being close-to-production, via the Pro -class, with more allowed aerodynamics and allowed engine swaps, to the Extreme -class in which everything is allowed, that is not forbidden explicitly.

While in lower classes a distinction between 2WD and 4WD is made, this is neglected in the Extreme-class. The series is independent and not connected to any larger organization like the DMSB.

Many computer and video games include a time attack or time trial mode, in which the main goal is to complete levels —or, in some cases, the entire game—as quickly as possible. This mode prioritizes completion time ahead of other measures of success such as high scores.

In cases in which a game does not have a dedicated time attack or trial mode, a fast completion is frequently known as a speedrun. Usually the best results achieved in a time attack mode are stored in long-term memory by the game on a hard disk or non-volatile memory , so they can be shared with friends or improved upon at a later date.

Racing games often feature "ghost cars" which are saved when the player sets a record time. In subsequent races, the ghost car follows the path the player took when setting that record, allowing them to clearly gauge how they are performing against the previous achievement.

Saved ghost cars can often be shared with other players. The inclusion of a time attack mode can often be an effective way of adding replay value to a game. Racing games may also include ghost cars recorded by the development staff—attempting to beat their times can provide a final challenge to players who have mastered the rest of the game.

Often the game provides other incentives to use the time attack feature; GoldenEye and Tomb Raider Anniversary encouraged players to revisit levels more than once by offering unlockable cheat options as a reward for completing them within target times.

Sometimes, the settings of a time attack mode are "locked" in order to standardize competition between players. For example, Soul Calibur features a time attack mode automatically set to two rounds for a win, the normal difficulty setting and a default time limit; but it also features an alternative Arcade mode, which allows any option settings to be used and saves record times separately.

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Shewhart Control Chart of Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay by Individual Patients in Preintervention and Postintervention Periods. eFigure 4. Cumulative Distribution Curves for Patients in the Preintervention and Postintervention Periods.

Chang DW , Neville TH , Parrish J, et al. Evaluation of Time-Limited Trials Among Critically Ill Patients With Advanced Medical Illnesses and Reduction of Nonbeneficial ICU Treatments.

JAMA Intern Med. Question Is there an intensive care unit ICU communication and care-planning approach that might be used to reduce nonbeneficial treatments?

Findings In this quality improvement study of patients, the use of protocoled time-limited trials TLTs as the default communication and care-planning approach for critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses was associated with significant reductions in ICU length of stay and use of invasive procedures without changes in hospital mortality or family satisfaction.

Importance For critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses and poor prognoses, overuse of invasive intensive care unit ICU treatments may prolong suffering without benefit. Objective To examine whether use of time-limited trials TLTs as the default care-planning approach for critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses was associated with decreased duration and intensity of nonbeneficial ICU care.

Design, Setting, and Participants This prospective quality improvement study was conducted from June 1, , to December 31, , at the medical ICUs of 3 academic public hospitals in California.

Patients at risk for nonbeneficial ICU treatments due to advanced medical illnesses were identified using categories from the Society of Critical Care Medicine guidelines for admission and triage.

Interventions Clinicians were trained to use TLTs as the default communication and care-planning approach in meetings with family and surrogate decision makers.

Main Outcomes and Measures Quality of family meetings process measure and ICU length of stay clinical outcome measure. Results A total of patients were included mean [SD] age, Formal family meetings increased from 68 of Key components of family meetings, such as discussions of risks and benefits of ICU treatments preintervention, 15 [ Median ICU length of stay was significantly reduced between preintervention and postintervention periods 8.

Hospital mortality was similar between the preintervention and postintervention periods 66 of [ Invasive ICU procedures were used less frequently in the postintervention period eg, mechanical ventilation preintervention, 97 [ Conclusions and Relevance In this study, a quality improvement intervention that trained physicians to communicate and plan ICU care with family members of critically ill patients in the ICU using TLTs was associated with improved quality of family meetings and a reduced intensity and duration of ICU treatments.

This study highlights a patient-centered approach for treating critically ill patients that may reduce nonbeneficial ICU care. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.

gov Identifier: NCT Overuse of invasive intensive care unit ICU treatments for patients with advanced medical illnesses and poor prognoses may lead to medical care that provides minimal benefit and prolongs suffering. Time-limited trials TLTs of ICU treatments have been recommended as an approach to reduce nonbeneficial treatments among critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses.

Follow-up meetings are held to see whether patients improve or worsen according to predetermined clinical parameters, and the next steps in care are negotiated based on these results. The objective of this study was to examine whether a multicomponent quality improvement intervention that uses protocoled TLTs as the default ICU care-planning approach for critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses was associated with decreased the duration and intensity of nonbeneficial ICU care.

This prospective quality improvement study was conducted in the medical ICUs of 3 academic public hospitals in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services: Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles, Olive View, and Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Centers.

The study was conducted from June 1, , to December 31, All ICUs were staffed by trainees interns, residents, and fellows. Each ICU was managed by physician and nurse directors who championed and implemented quality improvement activities.

The study population and protocol were preregistered on ClinicalTrials. Patients at risk for potentially nonbeneficial ICU treatments because of advanced medical illnesses were identified by assigning categories based on the Society of Critical Care Medicine SCCM guidelines for admission and triage.

Our experience with training ICU teams to classify patients using this system has previously been published. All new admissions deemed to be critically ill, though less likely to benefit from aggressive ICU treatments owing to underlying medical conditions or severity of acute illness category 3 in SCCM guidelines , were eligible.

Because patient populations at risk for nonbeneficial treatments varied at each hospital, the ICU directors created common clinical examples to help clinicians recognize patients considered at risk for nonbeneficial treatments.

Although these assessments of benefit are subjective, this approach was chosen because it is pragmatic and guideline-recommended and mirrors clinical practice. Patients who were initially assessed by clinicians to have a high likelihood of benefit but experienced clinical deterioration during ICU hospitalization to potentially nonbeneficial states were excluded.

Patients who could not communicate for themselves and did not have surrogate decision makers were also excluded. The framework for meeting with families and initiating TLTs is shown in eFigure 1 in the Supplement.

Barriers to ICU communication, conceptual frameworks for developing interventions, and implementation strategy were previously described.

Training of clinicians was divided into 3 components delivered over the course of 4 to 6 weeks: 1 focus groups of physicians to identify barriers to using TLTs, 2 didactic sessions to define TLTs and review protocols for using TLTs, and 3 simulations of family meetings with actors as family members using the TLT protocol.

Simulation sessions were facilitated by palliative care faculty with formal training in teaching communication skills. A TLT conversation guide was created to assist clinicians during family meetings; it consisted of a checklist of key components to be discussed in family meetings and sample phrases to use while discussing each component eTable 1 in the Supplement.

Clinicians were encouraged, but not mandated, to use the conversation guide during family meetings. Other quality improvement interventions included care managers to schedule family meetings as well as regular meetings between clinicians and institutional ICU directors to discuss challenging cases and receive feedback on the improvement strategy.

The conceptual framework for these interventions was based on the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation Behavior framework by Michie et al 26 and addressed barriers identified in our preliminary studies that inhibit capabilities, opportunities, and motivation for effective shared decision-making eFigure 2 in the Supplement.

Quality improvement interventions were implemented sequentially at each hospital. Data were collected for 4 months before and after the intervention. Study timelines are shown in eTable 2 in the Supplement. Clinical data were collected prospectively using electronic health records.

Clinical outcomes including ICU and hospital lengths of stay LOS and outcomes of hospitalization death, discharge to hospice, skilled nursing facility, or home were collected after discharge.

The ICU clinicians were asked to notify study personnel when family meetings were performed. Trained study personnel attended family meetings occurring on weekdays during daytime work hours and collected information using a standardized data collection form. The Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit FS-ICU survey was used to evaluate satisfaction with care and decision-making.

The FS-ICU survey is a validated tool that assesses satisfaction with ICU care 24 items with subscale rankings for satisfaction with medical care 14 items and satisfaction with decision-making 10 items.

Owing to limitations in study personnel, surveys were distributed to family members in 2 of the 3 hospitals Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center and Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.

Surveys were distributed after at least 72 hours of ICU hospitalization to ensure that families had opportunities to communicate with ICU care clinicians.

All surveys were anonymous, and no identifying information about patients or respondents were collected. The institutional review board at each institution approved the use of anonymous surveys.

Preintervention and postintervention clinical outcomes and use of ICU treatments were compared using t tests or Wilcoxon rank sum tests for continuous variables and χ 2 tests for dichotomous variables.

The primary outcome was ICU LOS. Based on our previous studies examining prevalence of potentially nonbeneficial ICU treatments, we estimated studying patients during each study period mean [SD] ICU LOS, 6. Interrupted time-series analysis using segmented linear regression was performed as a sensitivity analysis to examine trends in log-transformed ICU LOS before and after the intervention.

The unit of analysis was individual hospitalizations. Interrupted time-series analyses were conducted using SAS Proc Autoreg, version 9. Distributions of ICU LOS between study periods were also examined with cumulative distribution functions and compared using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Secondary outcomes included hospital LOS, days receiving life-sustaining treatments mechanical ventilation, vasopressor medications, and renal replacement therapy , number of attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation, number of invasive procedures central venous catheterization, thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, and endoscopy , and hospital mortality.

Prespecified exploratory subgroup analyses examined primary and secondary outcomes stratified by survivors and nonsurvivors.

The main process measure was quality of family meetings. The proportion of patients who had formal family meetings, median ICU day of first meetings, and how frequently key content elements were discussed were compared before and after the intervention.

The FS-ICU surveys were also compared between study periods. Total satisfaction and subscale scores were calculated by linearly transforming scores from 0 to , oriented so that higher scores indicate greater satisfaction, and averaging survey items as previously described.

Analyses were performed using R software, version 3. There were patients admitted to the medical ICUs of participating hospitals during the preintervention period and patients during the postintervention period Figure 1. Of these, patients in the preintervention and patients in the postintervention periods were considered by ICU clinicians to be at risk for nonbeneficial treatments.

Debilitating and progressive medical conditions, such as advanced dementia preintervention, 21 of [ The most common ICU diagnoses were acute respiratory failure preintervention, 41 [ Formal family meetings occurred for 68 of In the preintervention period, median ICU days to first family meeting was 5.

This was reduced to 1. In the preintervention period, many key components of family meetings were infrequently discussed Table 2 , including discussions of risks and benefits of ICU treatments 15 of 43 meetings [ The primary and secondary outcomes are summarized in Table 2.

The median ICU LOS was significantly reduced between the preintervention and postintervention periods 8. Similarly, the median hospital LOS was also shorter in the postintervention period Many ICU procedures were used less frequently in the postintervention period Table 2.

For example, 97 of patients Of patients receiving mechanical ventilation, median duration of treatment was reduced from 8. Do-not-resuscitate orders were present in 63 More patients received do-not-resuscitate orders during hospitalization in the postintervention 86 patients [ Despite reductions in LOS and intensity of treatments, hospital mortality was similar between the preintervention and postintervention periods 66 [ Reductions in the median ICU LOS was greater in nonsurvivors Similarly, reductions in the intensity of ICU treatments were greater in nonsurvivors compared with survivors mechanical ventilation preintervention and postintervention, 60 [ Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that ICU LOS was reduced by Trends in study outcomes before and after the study interventions were consistent in all 3 hospitals eTable 3 in the Supplement.

Interrupted time-series analysis showed an abrupt decrease in ICU LOS of 3. This decrease in ICU LOS remained similar 3. Control charts of ICU LOS by individual patients showed reductions in variability of ICU LOS and prolonged ICU hospitalizations in the postintervention period.

Intensive care unit LOS for 18 hospitalizations were above the upper boundary 2 SD in the preintervention period compared with 4 hospitalizations in the postintervention period eFigure 3 in the Supplement.

Cumulative distribution curves for ICU LOS before and after the study intervention showed that probabilities of prolonged ICU hospitalizations were lower in the postintervention period Of patients with ICU admissions at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center and Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, 69 Family satisfaction with care, as assessed by the FS-ICU mean SD total score, was Satisfaction with the medical care subscale was Satisfaction with the decision-making subscale was In this study, we implemented a quality improvement intervention that trained physicians to communicate and plan ICU care with family members of gravely ill patients using TLTs.

After the intervention, family meetings occurred more frequently and earlier in the ICU hospitalization and were more likely to address topics that are important for effective shared decision-making.

The intervention was associated with decreases in ICU and hospital LOS and use of invasive ICU treatments without a change in the hospital mortality. In addition, unwanted variation in ICU LOS and probability of prolonged hospitalizations were reduced.

Prespecified subgroup analyses showed greater decreases in LOS and invasive treatments among those who died; these exploratory analyses suggest greater reductions in invasive treatments may occur among those who are unlikely to survive hospitalization despite aggressive ICU care.

Our findings are consistent with previous studies of communication interventions in ICU patients. White and colleagues 37 showed that family support interventions delivered by trained interprofessional teams improved quality of communication and reduced ICU LOS among seriously ill ICU patients.

Previous studies such as these have generally examined patients at high risk for death, typically enrolling those on prolonged mechanical ventilation or for whom physicians estimated high risks of dying.

In such situations, it is especially important to mitigate risks for conflict by reassuring families that all indicated treatments have been pursued, developing rapport, and allowing time for emotional adjustment. Another important distinction from previous studies was that our intervention was performed in a large public health care system serving racially diverse and primarily indigent patients.

This patient population has been underrepresented in previous studies of ICU communication. Distinctions between our study and previous work highlight the importance of understanding context and environment when evaluating complex ICU communication interventions.

Guidelines from the SCCM on family-centered ICU care recommend routine family conferences using structured approaches for communication. Our study was also conducted in teaching hospitals. Clinicians in these teaching environments may have more malleable practice patterns compared to ICUs staffed by experienced clinicians with more established practice preferences.

Interventions were also conducted in the home institutions of the investigators and project champions. Project champions included medical directors and administrative leaders of participating ICUs, increasing the likelihood of uptake of study interventions into practice. Finally, it is important to clarify the goal of TLTs in our study.

For critically ill patients with advanced medical illnesses, decisions to pursue aggressive ICU treatments are value laden and preference sensitive. Time-limited trials were not intended to limit care or pressure families into uncomfortable decisions.

Instead, the goal was to create opportunities for clinicians to understand the values and preferences of patients and families, discuss risks and benefits of ICU treatments, and align ICU care with these preferences. Through this process of sharing information and examining the effects of ICU treatments together, it may have been easier to recognize when invasive treatments were not achieving their intended aims and place rational limits to minimize unnecessary suffering.

Our study has some important limitations. First, the before-and-after design makes the study susceptible to temporal trends that could bias patient selection and study outcomes.

However, several findings support the interpretation that such biases were small. Baseline characteristics of the preintervention and postintervention study groups were similar. Study outcomes also remained statistically significant after adjustment for differences in baseline characteristics and temporal trends using regression analyses.

In order to minimize biases in patient selection, approaches to identify patients at risk for nonbeneficial ICU treatments remained consistent between study periods.

Quality improvement training focused on improving communication and using TLTs and did not modify definitions of nonbeneficial treatments or prognostication. Second, it is not possible to know which elements of our multicomponent intervention facilitated changes in physician behaviors and clinical outcomes.

For example, decreases in ICU LOS and ventilator days may also be related to conducting family meetings earlier in the ICU hospitalization. However, we chose a multifaceted approach because previous studies showed that interventions need to target multiple aspects of physician practice to be effective.

Finally, we were not able to evaluate the sustainability of our intervention. Important future directions include examining whether our intervention translates to other health care environments and what factors affect whether improvements are sustained. In summary, a quality improvement intervention that trained physicians to communicate with family members of critically ill patients in the ICU using TLTs was associated with improved quality of family meetings and reduced intensity and duration of nonbeneficial ICU treatments without changing hospital mortality or worsening family satisfaction.

Published Online: April 12, Corresponding Author: Dong W. Chang, MD, MS, Department of Medicine, Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, W Carson St, PO Box , Torrance, CA dchang lundquist. Author Contributions: Drs Chang and Tseng had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Chang, Parrish, Ewing, Rico, Jara, Sim, Tseng, Kamangar, Liebler, Lee. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Chang, Neville, Parrish, Ewing, Jara, Tseng, van Zyl, Storms, Liebler, Lee.

Administrative, technical, or material support: Parrish, Ewing, Rico, Jara, van Zyl, Storms, Kamangar, Liebler, Lee, Yee. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported. Additional Contributions: We thank Eric Brass, MD, PhD, and Brad Spellberg, MD, for their assistance in data analysis and revision of this manuscript.

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