Goals of Care: A Nursing Home Trial of Decision Support for Advanced Dementia (GOC)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Goals of care decision support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01565642

R01AG037483 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

10-0699

Details and patient eligibility

About

This cluster randomized controlled trial is to examine whether decision support for goals of care can improve quality of communication and decision-making and improve the quality of palliative care for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

Enrollment: 302 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Surrogate for nursing home resident with advanced dementia, paired with resident with advanced dementia

Exclusion criteria

• Non-related legal surrogate without personal knowledge of resident

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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302 participants in 2 patient groups

Decision support intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Decision aid and care plan meeting

Treatment:

Behavioral: Goals of care decision support

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Attention control information on dementia care