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Patient Understanding of End of Life Care

NCT01683097 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2012-09-11

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Summary

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

Conditions

  • Advance Directives
  • Resuscitation Orders

Interventions

OTHER

Standardized explanation

Standardized explanation provided on code status, advance directives and end of life care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Partners in Internal Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • George Abraham, MD · Saint Vincent Hospital

  • Kriti Mittal, MD · Saint Vincent Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-03-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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