Patient Understanding of End of Life Care

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Advance Directives, Resuscitation Orders

In brief

This study aims at assessing factors that affect patient choices for end of life care. 300 patients would be assigned either to a control arm (questionnaire alone) or intervention arm (standardized explanation+ questionnaire). Our intervention is a standardized explanation which explains what code status, advance directive and end of life care mean. Based on patient responses, factors that affect choices of code status would be analyzed. We will also evaluate if a standardized explanation improves patient understanding of end of life issues. This would be determined by generating a composite score of correct responses to a subset of objective questions in the questionnaire

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01683097

Run by

Partners in Internal Medicine

People needed

300

Starts

2009-03-01

Expected to finish

2010-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-09-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age >18 years
• Admitted to regular nursing floor

You may not qualify if…

• altered mental status
• admitted in ICU
• positive screening for depression
• terminal illness defined as life expectancy< 100 days
• inability to consent

Where it is running

• Saint Vincent Hospital — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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