Involving Nursing Home Residents and Their Families in Acute Care Transfer Decisions
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Chronic Disease, Acute Disease
In brief
This study addresses the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) area of interest related to development of decision support tools that bring patients, families and clinicians together to decide, in this instance, whether or not transfer from the nursing home (NH) to acute care is necessary and appropriate. The purposes of this study were 1) to develop an evidence-based decision aid addressing potentially avoidable transfers of residents from nursing homes to hospitals (preceded this protocol), and 2) to evaluate this decision aid in terms of acceptability to residents and families and its effect on the quality of transfer decisions. The primary hypotheses to be tested are: Hypothesis 1: Resident and family members in the intervention group will report greater preparation for decision making and less decisional conflict than those in the no treatment control group. Hypothesis 2: Residents and family members in the intervention group will demonstrate increased knowledge related to acute care transfer and less preference for acute care transfer than those in the no treatment control group.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02568475
- Run by
- Florida Atlantic University
- People needed
- 192
- Starts
- 2012-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-08-31
Who can join
Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult nursing home resident and/or family member or identified significant other of a nursing home resident. Cognitively unimpaired individuals. Long or short term residents of nursing home or rehabilitation center.
You may not qualify if…
- Dementia as indicated by score on Mini-Cog. Inability to respond to questions due to physical disability or illness.
Where it is running
- Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing — Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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