NCT04730986

A Nurse-led, Advance Care Planning Intervention in the Emergency Department

A Nurse-led, Advance Care Planning Intervention in the Emergency Department: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

ED GOAL is a 6-minute, motivational interviewing, advance care planning intervention. In this study, the investigators will pilot test (Part I) ED GOAL by training research nurses to demonstrate its intervention fidelity and acceptability on older adults with serious illness in the emergency department (ED). Upon demonstrating the intervention fidelity of this intervention in Part I, the investigators will collect patient-centered outcomes (Part II) of 100 older adults with serious illness after leaving the ED. Further in Part III, the investigators will conduct a survey to the participants' outpatient clinicians to find out how to optimize the care coordination from the ED to the outpatient office to facilitate advance care planning conversations.

Conditions

• Emergency Department
• Motivational Interviewing
• Advance Care Planning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ED GOAL Nursing	A brief (\<7minutes) interview by an emergency department nurse to empower patients to formulate and communicate their goals for medical care with patients' outpatient clinicians.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-29
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2022-06-01
• First posted: 2021-01-29
• Last updated: 2022-06-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States