NCT01683097

Patient Understanding of End of Life Care

Assessing Patient Understanding and Factors That Govern Advanced Directives and End of Life Discussion

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Partners in Internal Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Conditions

• Advance Directives
• Resuscitation Orders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Standardized explanation	Standardized explanation provided on code status, advance directives and end of life care

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2012-09-11
• Last updated: 2012-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States