Advance Care Planning Notifications in General Inpatient Medicine

Duke University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advance Care Planning

Treatments: Other: Notification system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04756583

Pro00107026

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the impact of and response by physicians on Hospital Medicine/General Internal Medicine service to a notification identifying seriously ill patients at high risk of death within 30 days as well as within 6 months in a cluster randomized control trial.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years of age
• Attending Physician on the Hospital Medicine or General Internal Medicine Service at Duke University Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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73 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Notification system

Control

No Intervention group