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Honoring Individual Goals and Hopes: Implementing Advance Care Planning for Persons With Kidney Disease on Dialysis

NCT05324878 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2024-11-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The PCORI HIGHway project name embodies its goal: the way to "Honor Individuals Goals and Hopes". HIGHway trains and supports dialysis center social workers and nurses to communicate with their patients about their hopes and goals for their future care plans. This process, known as advance care planning (ACP), helps relieve patient concerns about the future, lays the foundation for better goal-concordant care at the end of life, and fosters deeper connection between patient and the dialysis care team. The HIGHway project will provide training and ongoing coaching to social workers and other change team members at 50-60 dialysis centers throughout the US. The goal is to integrate advance care planning conversations between dialysis patients and their health care team into the ongoing workflow of dialysis centers. The project is funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a non-profit organization chartered by Congress to fund projects to promote patient-centered care.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Training

Social workers/nurses participants are agreeing to participating in the training program (3 sessions of 2 hours over a period of six weeks - one session every 2 weeks), follow up training sessions (occurring monthly), mentorship calls with social worker faculty on the project team, recording one conversation between social worker and a patient for quality improvement purposes, and completing evaluation of the project interventions (5-minute questionnaire after each education session, 15-minute questionnaire at end of participation in project).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Western Carolina University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of New Mexico

    collaborator OTHER

  • George Washington University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dale Lupu, PhD · George Washington University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-01
Primary Completion
2024-05-31
Completion
2024-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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