Advanced Care Planning for the Severely Ill Home-dwelling Elderly
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Conditions studied: Advance Care Planning
In brief
This study will develop and evaluate a complex intervention to implement advance care planning for severely ill home-dwelling elderly acutely admitted to hospital, by using a cluster randomized design. Twelve Norwegian acute geriatric hospital units will participate in the main study, each as one cluster. Of the twelve clusters, half will receive implementation support and training immediately, and the other half will receive similar support after the intervention period. The study includes 1) assessment of implementation outcomes (fidelity) in the participating units,2) health service and clinical outcomes including a) questionnaires to all staff in the units before and after the implementation period, questionnaires to attending clinicians and qualitative interviews with health personnel and local unit leaders b) questionnaires to patients and their relatives, patients records and data from central health registers and qualitative interviews with patients and relatives. Furthermore we will assess barriers and facilitators for advance care planning in 1) a wider health service context, and 2) at the national, regional and municipal level, and do economic analyses.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05681585
- Run by
- University of Oslo
- People needed
- 2000
- Starts
- 2023-10-18
- Expected to finish
- 2026-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-04-06
Who can join
Age: 70 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Bærum — Oslo, Bærum kommune, Norway (enrolling)
- Hospital of Southern Norway, Arendal — Arendal, Norway (enrolling)
- Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen — Drammen, Norway (enrolling)
- Innlandet Hospital Trust, Elverum — Elverum, Norway (enrolling)
- Innlandet Hospital Trust, Gjøvik — Gjøvik, Norway (enrolling)
- Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Kongsberg — Kongsberg, Norway (enrolling)
- Hospital of Southern Norway, Kristiansand — Kristiansand, Norway (enrolling)
- Akershus University Hospital — Lørenskog, Norway (enrolling)
- Diakonhjemmet Hospital — Oslo, Norway (enrolling)
- Oslo University Hospital — Oslo, Norway (enrolling)
- Østfold Hospital Trust — Sarpsborg, Norway (enrolling)
- Vestfold Hospital Trust — Tønsberg, Norway (enrolling)
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