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Disseminating a Digital ACP Platform (Our Care Wishes) to Hospitalized Patients

NCT03727685 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16020

Last updated 2023-06-15

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Summary

Penn Medicine has created a novel, online, evidence-based advance care planning (ACP) platform through its Center for Health Care Innovation. The platform is called "Our Care Wishes" and utilizes a 'shopping-cart' approach to ACP, allowing users to name surrogate decision makers, make choices about quality of life and medical treatments, outline medical wishes and organ donation, and share preferences for their end of life experience. Our Care Wishes then creates an easy to read, updatable ACP document that can be electronically shared with loved ones and uploaded to a patient's electronic medical record in PennChart.

It is believed that this platform may help to overcome engagement and infrastructure barriers previously identified in the literature regarding the completion of ACP documents. The intervention will consist of multi-channel information dissemination regarding Our Care Wishes to Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania patients admitted through two locations (the Emergency Department, Silverstein 1 Admission Office) and outpatients who are seen in Pre-Admission Testing (PAT). All patients visiting these two locations during the intervention phase will receive a paper handout with information regarding Our Care Wishes included in their customary admission folder packet. The registration representative (RR) at these three locations will provide a brief explanation of the site as they check the patients in, as well send the patients a direct link to the site for non-ED admits via email and text message.

Conditions

  • Hospitalism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Our Care Wishes

A flyer describing the Our Care Wishes platform will be added to the back pocket of admission packets for patients being admitted via the Silverstein 1 Admission Office and the Emergency Department and for patients being seen in the Pre Admission Testing office. Registration reps in these locations will inform all patients seen that Penn has created a free, online resource called Our Care Wishes to help patients with Advance Care Planning and ask if they would like to be sent a link to Our Care Wishes by email or text. For those patients who respond affirmatively, the rep will then complete the necessary fields to refer on www.ourcarewishes.org/refer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott D Halpern, Ph.D, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-25
Primary Completion
2019-12-02
Completion
2022-05-01

Countries

  • United States

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