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Patient Understanding of End of Life Care

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Partners in Internal Medicine

Status

Completed

Conditions

Advance Directives
Resuscitation Orders

Treatments

Other: Standardized explanation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01683097
SVH 1195

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims at assessing factors that affect patient choices for end of life care. 300 patients would be assigned either to a control arm (questionnaire alone) or intervention arm (standardized explanation+ questionnaire). Our intervention is a standardized explanation which explains what code status, advance directive and end of life care mean. Based on patient responses, factors that affect choices of code status would be analyzed. We will also evaluate if a standardized explanation improves patient understanding of end of life issues. This would be determined by generating a composite score of correct responses to a subset of objective questions in the questionnaire

Enrollment

300 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age >18 years
  • Admitted to regular nursing floor

Exclusion criteria

  • altered mental status
  • admitted in ICU
  • positive screening for depression
  • terminal illness defined as life expectancy< 100 days
  • inability to consent

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

300 participants in 2 patient groups

Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Questionnaire
Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Standardized explanation followed by questionnaire
Treatment:
Other: Standardized explanation

Trial contacts and locations

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