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Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Hospitalized Elderly Patients

NCT01362855 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 503

Last updated 2020-12-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to inform decision-makers of the best strategies to implement advanced care planning (ACP).

An advanced care plan (ACP) is a verbal or written instruction describing what kind of care an individual would want (or not want)if they are no longer able speak for themselves to make health care decisions.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness
  • Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Cirrhosis
  • Cancer

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Daren K. Heyland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daren K Heyland, MD, MSc · Queen's University

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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