Clinical trials: Advance Directive
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
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective
Psychiatric Advance Directives for Improved Mental Health Care
During a psychiatric crisis, persons with severe mental illness (SMI) confront complex challenges concerning treatment choices and are often ill equipped or unable to make mental health care decisions.
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, Bipolar Disorder, Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic
- Trial name
- NCT00105794
- Testing
- Psychiatric Advance Directives intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
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
Advanced Cancer
Web-Based Advance Care Planning for Patients With Advanced Cancer
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether a web-based advance care planning (ACP) intervention can reduce preferences for aggressive life-sustaining treatments among patients with advanced cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT07712237
- Testing
- Web-Based Advance Care Planning Program, Patient Right to Autonomy Act Leaflet
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 110 people
- Sponsor
- Tri-Service General Hospital (TSGH)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Advance Directives
The aim of this study is to evaluate if the participation of COPD patients to a workshop on advance directives increases the number of patients who write them.
- Trial name
- DIABPCO (NCT04459143)
- Testing
- Advance directives
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 525 people
- Sponsor
- Hôpital NOVO
Healthy
Activating Seniors to Improve Chronic Disease Care
Chronic diseases are the primary cause of morbidity and mortality for older Americans. Active patient participation in treatment decision-making has the potential to significantly improve outcomes in chronic disease care, but…
- Trial name
- NCT00651495
- Testing
- Patient decision aids for chronic conditions
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 116 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Loss of Capability of Judgement
Advance Directive Implementation and Scientific Evaluation Study
This study is to better understand the use of advance directives, their implementation in the intensive care unit, and their effects on outcome.
- Trial name
- ADVISE (NCT04348318)
- Testing
- health related personal data extraction from digital medical records
- Where
- 2 sites in Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Cancer Patients
Evaluation of an Interventional Module to Assist Physicians Introducing ACP to Cancer Patients
Evaluation of an Interventional module to assist physicians introducing ACP to cancer patients
- Trial name
- NCT04969952
- Testing
- For interventional module
- Where
- 2 sites in Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 384 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Neoplasms, Heart Failure
Preparing Family Caregivers to Make Medical Decisions for Their Loved Ones
The overarching goal of the project is to improve the process and experience of surrogate decision-making by family caregivers. Since feeling unprepared to make surrogate decisions is a major contributor to caregiver stress, the…
- Conditions
- Neoplasms, Heart Failure, Kidney Diseases, Lung Diseases
- Trial name
- NCT02429479
- Testing
- Making Your Wishes Known, Standard advance care planning
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 285 people
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer
Using an End-of-life Conversation Game to Engage Patients With Cancer in Advance Care Planning
The goal of this clinical trial is to explore feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of end-of-life conversation game "Hello" as a tool to help individuals with breast, lung, and/or genito-urinary cancers treated at Penn…
- Conditions
- Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Genito Urinary Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT06028152
- Testing
- End-of-life conversation game called "Hello"
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Advanced Care Planning, Shared Decision Making
Advance Care Planning: Communicating With Outpatients for Vital Informed Decision
This Pre-Post, open-cohort design, pragmatic trial with 150 clinicians and will evaluate the effectiveness of the use of telehealth Advanced Care Planning (ACP) Program by comparing ACP documentation among 13,000 patients over 65
- Conditions
- Advanced Care Planning, Shared Decision Making, Video Decision Aids, Communication Skills
- Trial name
- ACP-COVID (NCT04660422)
- Testing
- VitalTalk communication skills training, ACP Decisions Video Program, Intervention training:
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42,019 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Pancreas and Hepatobiliary Cancer Patients
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Video to Enhance Advance Care Planning in Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
Advance care planning involves thinking about choices if the patient becomes sick, and is important for everyone. It does not matter if the patients are ill or healthy.
- Trial name
- NCT01105806
- Testing
- (CPR) video and questionnaires, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) narrative script and questionnaires
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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
Advance Directives, Resuscitation Orders
Patient Understanding of End of Life Care
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).
- Trial name
- NCT01683097
- Testing
- Standardized explanation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Partners in Internal Medicine
Advanced Directive Planning
Patient Perception of Video Advance Care Planning
Rates of advance directive completion among Americans, even those suffering from serious chronic illness, are notoriously poor. Moreover, the contents of completed advance directives are often difficult to interpret in the face…
- Trial name
- NCT02692950
- Testing
- Honor My Decisions Advance Care Planning Video, Post-video questionnaire
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
Project Talk Trial: Engaging Underserved Communities in End-of-life Conversations
Compared to the general population, individuals from underserved communities are more likely to receive low quality end-of-life care and unwanted, costly and burdensome treatments due in part to a lack of advance care planning…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Terminal Illness, Chronic Illness
- Trial name
- NCT04612738
- Testing
- Hello (serious game), The Conversation Project (CP) Starter Kit, Table Topics (general conversation game)
- Where
- 79 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
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
Healthy
Intervention to Improve Expression of End of Life Preferences for Homeless Persons
The purpose of this study is to determine whether homeless individuals will complete a living will and whether guidance enhances rates of completion and to see whether filling out a living will has any impact on the care given at…
- Trial name
- SELPH (NCT00546884)
- Testing
- MI condition, GI
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 262 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
UC Health Care Planning Study
Using a cluster randomized design at the clinic level, this project will implement and test three real-world, scalable advance care planning interventions among primary care clinics across three University of California health…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Advanced Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT04012749
- Testing
- Advance directive, Prepare, Facilitator
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8,707 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Breast Cancer
Four Conversations RCT
The purpose of this study is to see whether patients with metastatic breast cancer, their caregivers, and their healthcare providers can improve in shared decision making (SDM) and preparedness around end of life (EOL) planning…
- Trial name
- NCT02944344
- Testing
- Four Conversations
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 357 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University