NCT03832868

Syngery-Evaluating the Impact of Decision Aid

Evaluating the Impact of Decision Aid Timing on Mandatory Shared Decision Making for Defibrillator Implantation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine whether it is better to give patients an implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) decision aid before they have their first consultation with an implanting cardiac electrophysiologist or after the consult.

Detailed description

There are many unanswered questions about how shared decision making should be executed and how decision aids should be employed. The aim of this study is to determine whether it is better to give patients an implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) decision aid before they have their first consultation with an implanting cardiac electrophysiologist or after the consult.

Conditions

• Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pre-visit timing of receipt of the ICDs implantation decision aid	The intervention is the timing of receipt of the decision aid. The decision aid is designed to facilitate informing patients and helping to reach a decision.The implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) implantation decision aid presents treatment options, risks, and benefits in lay terms.It is currently utilized in all of the Emory cardiac electrophysiology clinics as part of usual clinical care.
BEHAVIORAL	Post-visit timing of receipt of the ICDs implantation decision aid	The intervention is the timing of receipt of the decision aid. The decision aid is designed to facilitate informing patients and helping to reach a decision.The implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) implantation decision aid presents treatment options, risks, and benefits in lay terms.It is currently utilized in all of the Emory cardiac electrophysiology clinics as part of usual clinical care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-20
• Primary completion: 2019-09-06
• Completion: 2019-09-06
• First posted: 2019-02-06
• Last updated: 2019-09-12

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States