MedTrace Logo

Advance Care Planning at London Health Sciences Centre

NCT03297320 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2017-09-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

All patients admitted to London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) are asked to indicate their preferences for CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and other life-sustaining treatments that necessitate an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

Complex, high-risk patients at LHSC require multiple admissions to the hospital towards their end-of-life (EOL). Documentation of their resuscitation status should be a part of a broader dialogue with patients around their goals of care (GOC) and advance care planning (ACP), but rarely is this the case.

The innovation will involve the use of trained nurse facilitators to have meaningful conversations with patients and their families in an effective way that bridges the gap between resuscitation status, GOC discussions and ACP across the continuum of care.

Conditions

  • Advance Care Planning

Interventions

OTHER

In-depth conversation about Goals of Care and ACP

In-depth conversation regarding Goals of Care and ACP by an experienced practitioner

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ravi Taneja, FRCPC · Western University, Canada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-01
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2019-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT03297320 on ClinicalTrials.gov