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Focused Palliative Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure

NCT02805712 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2017-07-21

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Summary

This small pilot study will be assessing the the impact of a standardized, social-worker led, longitudinal palliative care intervention on alignment of patient and physician understanding of prognosis and goals of care. Secondary objectives include assessing the impact of this intervention on documentation of advanced care planning and end of life preferences, symptom burden, quality of life and health care utilization.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Verbal Information and Discussion

Intervention patient will receive a outpatient session with a palliative care social worker in the heart failure clinic two weeks post discharge consent focusing on goals of care.

OTHER

Control

The control group will receive usual written care material and a palliative care consult if ordered by physician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Akshay S Desai, MPH, MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-06-30
Completion
2016-12-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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