Assessment of Pulmonary Specialty Physicians' Approach to Advanced Care Planning in Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Diseases

Completed

Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Fibrosis

In brief

To understand current practices of pulmonary physicians in relation to Advanced Care Planning (ACP) in order to develop future disease-specific tools that will improve patient-physician communication about ACP.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01825538

Run by

Jennifer McCallister MD

People needed

93

Starts

2013-02-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-07-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 88. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are between 18 and 88 years of age who have been diagnosed with a physician diagnosis of COPD based on at least one of the following:
• clinical history - a documented history of COPD, emphysema, or chronic bronchitis.
• pulmonary function results - defined as an forced expiratory volume in one second to forced vital capacity ratio (FEV1/FVC) less than 0.7
• Patients who are between 18 and 88 years of age and have been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis based on the following:
• Subpleural, basal predominance of parenchymal abnormality on high resolution computed tomography (HRCT)
• Reticular abnormality on HRCT
• Honeycombing without traction bronchiectasis on HRCT
• Absence of features that are inconsistent with usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern OR
• UIP based on surgical lung biopsy

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18 years or > 88 years
• Prisoners
• Pregnant patients

Where it is running

• The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States

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