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Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and Shared Decision Making for End of Life Care

NCT01914848 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2016-06-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and shared decision making for end of live care for terminal patients and their relatives.

The aim of this study is to develop, implement and test a complex intervention for improving patients' preparation for and participation in end of life decisions. In cooperation with local, national and international partners, the investigators will focus on strategies to enhance advance care planning and shared decision making on end of life issues, and documentation and transferability of end of life decisions across health care settings in coordinated approach involving patients, their families and care givers (in and out of hospital).

Conditions

  • Palliative Patients
  • Surrogate Decision Maker

Interventions

OTHER

Advance Care Planning ACP

Patient of the intervention group get a decision aid video and library and up to 3 consultations with qualified Advance Care Planning Facilitators.

OTHER

Control Group

A routine care discharge planning with the social service

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Zurich

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tanja Krones, MD · University Hospital Zurich, Clinical Ethics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-04-30
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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