NCT01914848

Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and Shared Decision Making for End of Life Care

Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and Shared Decision-making for End of Life Care MAPS Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 115 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and shared decision making for end of live care for terminal patients and their relatives. The aim of this study is to develop, implement and test a complex intervention for improving patients' preparation for and participation in end of life decisions. In cooperation with local, national and international partners, the investigators will focus on strategies to enhance advance care planning and shared decision making on end of life issues, and documentation and transferability of end of life decisions across health care settings in coordinated approach involving patients, their families and care givers (in and out of hospital).

Conditions

• Palliative Patients
• Surrogate Decision Maker

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Advance Care Planning ACP	Patient of the intervention group get a decision aid video and library and up to 3 consultations with qualified Advance Care Planning Facilitators.
OTHER	Control Group	A routine care discharge planning with the social service

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-08-01
• First posted: 2013-08-02
• Last updated: 2016-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland