A Study to Tailor Advance Directives

Completed

Conditions studied: Dementia, Persistent Vegetative State, Terminally Ill

In brief

In this study, hospitalized patients will first be surveyed regarding their interest in a traditional advanced directive (AD) and then in a modified AD.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00121004

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

100

Starts

2005-07-01

Expected to finish

2005-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-09-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Hospitalized patients admitted to the general medical service at the University of Chicago
• Previously enrolled in a study of hospitalized general medicine patients at the University of Chicago

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who score less than 17 out of 30 on the Folstein Mini-Mental Status Examination or who have a proxy decision-maker
• Patients who are medically unstable based on two or more abnormal vital signs
• Patients who face a possible new diagnosis of cancer

Where it is running

• The University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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