Honoring Individual Goals and Hopes: Implementing Advance Care Planning for Persons With Kidney Disease on Dialysis
Completed
Conditions studied: Kidney Diseases, Kidney Failure
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05324878
- Run by
- George Washington University
- People needed
- 55
- Starts
- 2021-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2024-07-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-11-20
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Social worker or nurse must work at a participating dialysis center.
- Social worker, nurse and patients must speak, read and write English.
- All participants must be 18 y old.
- Social workers and nurses Commitment to attend initial 6-h training and booster sessions.
You may not qualify if…
- Under 18 years old
- Unable to speak, read and write English
Where it is running
- DaVita World Headquarters — Denver, Colorado, United States
- American Renal Associates LLC Corporate Office — Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
- Fresenius Medical Care Corporate Headquarters — Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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