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Quality Improvement Project for Advance Care Planning Tool in Hospital Medicine

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04296136

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Official title

Quality Improvement Project: Assessing the Use of Advanced Care Planning Documentation for Patients at High Risk of 30-day Mortality on Hospital Medicine Services

Brief summary

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Hospitalized patients and their families are often unprepared regarding end-of-life care. Even patients with high risk of mortality within the index admission or 30 days after admission often do not have clearly defined goals of care. This lack of clarity can create difficult scenarios for patients, their families, and care providers. Lack of communication and documentation of these goals can lead to unnecessary tests, procedures, and readmissions. By creating advanced care planning education for the hospital medicine department, a standardized note template, and EMR utilization for storage and reference of patient's goals of care documentation we aim to facilitate the conveyance of patient's wishes/preferences across different care providers and across separate encounters within the healthcare system. For this study, we will use a pre-post study design to evaluate the implementation of this quality improvement intervention.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04296136
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Lead sponsor
Duke University
Other
Enrollment
743 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Nov 25, 2019
Primary completion
Sep 14, 2021
Completion
Mar 14, 2022
Last update posted
May 17, 2022

2019 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Duke University Durham North Carolina 27705

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