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Effect of Behavioral Nudges on Serious Illness Conversation Documentation

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04867850

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Official title

Effect of Behavioral Nudges to Clinicians, Patients, or Both on Serious Illness Conversation Documentation for Patients With Cancer

Brief summary

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The main purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effectiveness of "nudges" to clinicians, to patients, or to both in increasing Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) documentation; and to identify moderators of implementation effects on SIC documentation. The investigators will employ rapid-cycle approaches to optimize the framing of nudges to clinicians and patients prior to initiating the trial and mixed methods to explore contextual factors and mechanisms. The investigators will conduct a four-arm pragmatic cluster randomize clinical trial to test the effectiveness of nudges to clinicians, nudges to patients, or nudges to both in increasing the frequency and timeliness of SIC documentation in cancer patients vs. usual care (UC). The investigators hypothesize that each of the implementation strategy arms will significantly increase SIC documentation compared to UC and that the combination of nudges to clinicians and to patients will be the most effective.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04867850
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
4,450 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Other

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
Sep 8, 2021
Primary completion
Sep 8, 2022
Completion
Sep 8, 2022
Last update posted
Apr 17, 2024

2021 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Abramson Cancer Center at University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104

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