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EFFICACY: Hopewell Hospitalist: A Video Game Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning by Hospitalists

NCT04557930 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 163

Last updated 2023-04-10

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Summary

Hopewell Hospitalist is a theory-based adventure video game designed to increase the likelihood that a physician will engage in an advance care planning (ACP) conversation with a patient over the age of 65. Drawing on the theory of narrative engagement, players assume the persona of a hospitalist and navigate a series of clinical encounters with seriously-ill patients over the age of 65. Players experience the consequences of having (or not having) ACP conversations in a timely fashion. The planned study is a pragmatic stepped-wedge crossover phase III trial testing the efficacy of Hopewell Hospitalist for increasing ACP rates measured by ACP billing frequency.

Conditions

  • Advance Care Planning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Hopewell Hospitalist Video Game

Hopewell Hospitalist is a customized theory-based adventure video game that uses narrative engagement to educate physician players on advance care planning to increase physicians' likelihood of engaging in and billing for ACP conversations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sound Physicians

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine�

  • Deepika Mohan, MD, MPH · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-01
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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