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Choice Sets for Advance Directives

NCT02209038 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 321

Last updated 2016-01-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There is a large gap between the care seriously ill patients want and the care they receive. Advance directives (ADs) offer an opportunity for patients to express specific end-of-life preferences to avoid unwanted care. As promising as ADs may be for improving the quality of care near the end of life, rates of AD completion remain low and previous efforts to encourage their completion have had limited success. Principles of behavioral economics, such as the effects of defaults and other framing effects, may offer a novel approach to bridge the gap in end-of-life care. The goal of this study is to test whether the framing effect of expanding choice sets can increase the completion of and specification of choices within advance directives.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expanded AD Choice

BEHAVIORAL

Expanded Life-sustaining Therapy Choice

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott D Halpern, MD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

  • Katherine R Courtright, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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