Patient Understanding of End of Life Care

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-03-31

Study Completion Date

2010-06-30

Brief Summary

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This study aims at assessing factors that affect patient choices for end of life care. 300 patients would be assigned either to a control arm (questionnaire alone) or intervention arm (standardized explanation+ questionnaire). Our intervention is a standardized explanation which explains what code status, advance directive and end of life care mean. Based on patient responses, factors that affect choices of code status would be analyzed. We will also evaluate if a standardized explanation improves patient understanding of end of life issues. This would be determined by generating a composite score of correct responses to a subset of objective questions in the questionnaire

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Advance Directives Resuscitation Orders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control

Questionnaire

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention

Standardized explanation followed by questionnaire

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Standardized explanation

Intervention Type OTHER

Standardized explanation provided on code status, advance directives and end of life care

Interventions

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Standardized explanation

Standardized explanation provided on code status, advance directives and end of life care

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age \>18 years
* Admitted to regular nursing floor

Exclusion Criteria

* altered mental status
* admitted in ICU
* positive screening for depression
* terminal illness defined as life expectancy\< 100 days
* inability to consent

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No