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Educational Video to Improve Nursing Home Care in End-stage Dementia

NCT01774799 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 804

Last updated 2019-10-23

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Summary

This is a 5-year cluster RCT of a video Advance Care Planning intervention vs. control among 360 nursing home residents with advanced dementia (N=180/arm) in 20 matched nursing homes (10 intervention/10 control). Clinical outcomes will be collected at baseline, and quarterly (up to 12-months) regarding goals of care preferences, advance care planning, and treatments received. The primary outcome is decisions not to be hospitalized at 6 months.

Conditions

  • Advanced Dementia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Advance care planning intervention

OTHER

Control group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Hebrew SeniorLife

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan L Mitchell, MD, MPH · Hebrew SeniorLife

  • Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2017-08-31
Completion
2017-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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