Status:
COMPLETED
Intervention to Promote Advance Care Planning for Older Adults in the Emergency Department
Lead Sponsor:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Conditions:
Emergency Medicine
Advance Care Planning
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
There is an urgent need to increase advance care planning among older adults in order to ensure that patients receive care of the end of life that is consistent with their values and preferences. Emer...
Detailed Description
The overarching goal of this project is to understand the impact of an ED-initiated intervention on the promotion of advance care planning (ACP) among older adults. Participants are given either a sho...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Ability to provide informed consent
- Ability to communicate in English
- Age 65-79 years with a serious medical illness: (1) Established diagnosis of metastatic cancer, advanced heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, end stage liver disease, end stage renal disease, (2) Unable to walk or requires human assistance with walking, (3) Two hospitalizations within the last 6 months
- Age 80 years or older
Exclusion
- Critically ill (emergency severity index = 1)
- Cognitively impaired based on Six Item Screener \< 4 or lack the capacity to consent
- Currently enrolled in hospice or comfort care program
- No working phone number
- Non English speaker
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2016
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
42 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03402763
Start Date
February 1 2016
End Date
February 1 2017
Last Update
January 18 2018
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