Clinical trials: Advance Directives
End of Life
Survey on Palliative Care and Law Perception
The primary objective of the current survey study is to obtain detailed information about European intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians' awareness of palliative care and relevant, local end-of-life (EoL) legislation.
- Trial name
- PCLAW (NCT06245525)
- Testing
- This is not an interventional study
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 523 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
GI Cancer, Thoracic Cancer
Comparison of a Web-based Advance Directive to a Standard Advance Directive
This study will compare a web-based advance directive to a standard advance directive.
- Trial name
- NCT03676426
- Testing
- Web platform for advance care planning/advance directive, Standard advance directive
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Neoplasms
An Exploratory Study of the Use of Five Wishes as a Tool for Advanced Care Planning in Young Adults With Metastatic, Recurrent, or Progressive Cancer or HIV Infection
Background: Few resources exist for helping adolescents and young adults with cancer or HIV disease understand their changing physical, emotional and social needs when treatment is no longer effective.
- Trial name
- NCT01445145
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Death
Advance Directives and End-of-life Decision Making in Intensive Care Medicine in Germany
Description of the decision making process as well as the practices of end of life care in an ICU of a German university hospital during the period when changes of German legislation occurred.
- Trial name
- NCT01294189
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 224 people
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest
End-of-life Practices in 2019 vs. 2014
In 2014, the authors conducted a survey of key opinion leaders on ethical resuscitation practices in 31 European Countries. The authors administered a comprehensive questionnaire to 1-2 "experts" from each country…
- Conditions
- Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest, Ethics, Narrative
- Trial name
- NCT04078815
- Where
- 2 sites in Belgium, Greece
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
Dementia
Effect of an Advance Care Planning Intervention
The intervention being studied is an advance care planning intervention. The trial has two arms: usual care and information arm.
- Trial name
- NCT04852055
- Testing
- Advance Care Planning Video
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,364 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
End of Life
Can the Vascular Physician Sensitize Patients to Redaction of Advance Directives on End of Life?
The Leonetti law of 22 April 2005 on the rights of patients at end of life provides the opportunity for "all adults" to write advance directives in case she would one day be "unable to express their will." If this right is…
- Trial name
- DIRFIN (NCT02892175)
- Testing
- Advance Directives on End of Life
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph
Detention Under the Mental Health Act
Advance Choice Document Implementation
Advance Choice Documents (ACDs) are statements of preferences for mental health care and treatment made when service users have capacity to do so. This is done with their care team and others as desired, e.g.
- Trial name
- ACDI (NCT07284368)
- Testing
- Advance Choice Document Implementation
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 374 people
- Sponsor
- King's College London
Older Adults, Advance Care Planning
Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Advance Care Planning for Older Adults and Caregivers After Emergency Visits
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing (MI) intervention in enhancing advance care planning (ACP) among older adults who have visited the Emergency Room (ER) in the past six months and their…
- Conditions
- Older Adults, Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Family Members
- Trial name
- NCT06090240
- Testing
- Dyadic MI-ACP intervention, Elderly alone MI-ACP
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong