Patient-Centered Advance Care Planning

Phase 3CompletedNCT00204802

University of Wisconsin, Madison313 enrolled

Overview

Based on theories regarding decision-making and patient education the investigators have developed Patient-Centered Advance Care Planning (PC-ACP). This intervention is designed to improve patient and surrogate knowledge of ACP, increase the congruence between patient and surrogate in treatment decisions, decrease the patient's and surrogate's conflict in making such decisions, and increase the consistency between patient preferences and the actual care they receive. The ACP intervention is conducted with the patient in the presence of the surrogate.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

313

Conditions

Heart Failure Renal Failure

Interventions

Patient-Centered Advance Care PlanningBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * At high risk for impending death in the next 12 months Exclusion Criteria: * Patient not having decision-making capacity

Locations (1)

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

efficacy of PC-ACP

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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