Advance Care Planning in Cognitive Disorders Clinic

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advance Care Planning

Treatments: Other: Advance Care Planning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03864965

OCR21061 (Other Identifier)

ID00023545 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

IRB201900108

Details and patient eligibility

About

Advance care planning among patients with cognitive disorders poses unique challenges to clinicians. To improve planning in patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, the researchers suggest a routine, standardized approach to these conversations. The main outcome measure is the rate of entry of Advance Directive completion in the patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR). A control group of similar patients from another provider specializing in cognitive disorders will be used to tease out confounding variable effects.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients having mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or very mild to mild dementia (CDR 0.5-1).

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with moderate to severe dementia (CDR 2-3).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, very mild dementia, or mild dementia, will receive the guided advance care planning conversations with the PI

Treatment:

Other: Advance Care Planning

Control Patients

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, very mild dementia, or mild dementia, will not receive the guided advance care planning conversations with the PI