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Video Images About Decisions for Ethical Outcomes in the Emergency Department (VIDEO-ED)

NCT ID: NCT04931797

Last Updated: 2025-11-10

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

900 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-04-25

Study Completion Date

2026-05-30

Brief Summary

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A randomized controlled trial of a video decision aid in the Emergency Department Setting to improve advance care planning documentation.

Detailed Description

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A randomized controlled trial of a video decision aid in the Emergency Department setting shown to patients followed by a brief advance care planning discussion and then relay that discussion to the patient's primary care provider and/or admitting clinical team and look at rates of advance care planning documentation in the electronic health record over time. Primary outcome is advance care planning documentation in the EHR at 3 months.

Conditions

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Emergencies

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

RCT
Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors
Primary outcome will be obtained through natural language processing (NLP) from the EHR, in which the RA conducting the NLP will not know which arm of the study the patient was in.

Study Groups

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Video

Video decision aid and advance care planning discussion

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

video decision aid

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

advance care planning video decision aid

Control arm

Usual advance care planning services provided at the study site.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

control arm ACP information sheet

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

control arm ACP information sheet

Interventions

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video decision aid

advance care planning video decision aid

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

control arm ACP information sheet

control arm ACP information sheet

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* anyone aged 65 and over or anyone aged over 50-64 with an indicator of serious illness

Exclusion Criteria

* non english or spanish speakers those with a POLST legally blind medically non stable requiring ICU level care
Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of California, Davis

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Massachusetts General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Angelo E. Volandes, MD

Physician

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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UC Davis

Davis, California, United States

Site Status

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Newton Wellesley Hospital

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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R01AG065254

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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2021p001552

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id