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Intervention to Promote Advance Care Planning for Older Adults in the Emergency Department

NCT03402763 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 42

Last updated 2018-01-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There is an urgent need to increase advance care planning among older adults in order to ensure that patients receive care of the end of life that is consistent with their values and preferences. Emergency departments (EDs) provide an opportunity to reach a large proportion of older adults who have not yet completed advance care planning at a time when they are likely to recognize the need for such planning. The purpose of this pilot is to examine the potential of a video-supported intervention initiated during the emergency department visit to promote advance care planning.

Conditions

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Advance Care Planning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Video

The intervention is an educational video presented to patients in the ED with the intent to promote ACP among older adults.

BEHAVIORAL

Primary Care Provider Email

For intervention patients, an email will be sent to primary care providers explaining that the patient has seen a video about advance care planning, providing a synopsis of the video, and giving instructions about how to document end-of-life care preferences in the electronic health record.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Timothy F Platts-Mills, MD · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-02-01
Primary Completion
2017-02-01
Completion
2017-02-01

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