NCT02680327

Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Elderly Cardiac Surgery Patients

A Feasibility Study on: Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Elderly Cardiac Surgery Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 35 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Montreal Heart Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective epidemiological pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients in a large multicenter study that will audit Advanced Care Planning (ACP) practices and satisfaction with End Of Life (EOL) communication and decision-making in patients undergoing cardiac surgery using the current validated questionnaires and methodology.

Detailed description

Study Procedures: Once patients have signed an informed consent they will be asked to complete the ACP evaluation questionnaire. Their level of frailty will be assessed with the 5-meter walk test. Two weeks after discharge (+ or - 7 days) they will be contacted by phone in order to complete 3 sections of the CANHELP questionnaire. Study Tools Patient questionnaires: 1. ACP Evaluation questionnaire: 5 questions about advance care planning on admission to hospital from CANHELP study (time predicted 10 minutes) 2. CANHELP questionnaire (sections relationship with doctors, communication and decision making) 2 weeks after discharge (time predicted 25 minutes) Patient test: 1. 5-minute gait speed Patient Assessment Data 2. Standard Demographics 3. Anthropometric data 4. Cardiac variables 5. Comorbidities 6. Lab Values 7. Frailty (assessed using 5-meter gait speed) Post-surgical outcome data (will be sought in the chart after 30 days post-surgery) 1. Outcome 2. Complications

Conditions

• Advanced Care Planning

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-04-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2016-02-11
• Last updated: 2016-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada