Patient Initiated Note About Goals (PING)

Duke University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: PING

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05637489

Pro00110933

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled trial of the Patient-Initiated Note about Goals (PING).

Full description

The PING is a brief survey designed to elicit patients' goals, preferences, and preferred surrogate decision-maker. In the PING study, patients will be assigned to receive either a nurse-administered PING or usual care. Outcomes include PING completion, subsequent goals of care conversations with providers, and healthcare utilization.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient referred for Annual Wellness Visit at participating clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Patients receive PING administered by RN

Treatment:

Behavioral: PING

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care