Clinical trials: Advance Directives
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
Advance Directives, Post Intensive Care Syndrome
Post-ICU Consultation : a Time to Discuss Advance Directives (CoPRADA)
The aim of this study is to assess the possibility of discussing advance directives during post-intensive care consultation.
- Conditions
- Advance Directives, Post Intensive Care Syndrome, Advance Care Planning
- Trial name
- CoPRADA (NCT05817500)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Brest
Advance Care Planning
The Influence of Default Options in Advance Directives
The investigators aim to assess the influence of default options in advance directives on older patients selections of life- extending therapies and to determine whether alerting patients to the spectrum of possible default…
- Trial name
- NCT01346176
- Testing
- Advance Directive Forms
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 132 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm
Mobile Health Application (PACT) to Improve Engagement in Advance Care Planning
This clinical trial tests a new mobile health application (app) called Planning Advance Care Together (PACT) to help people with cancer talk about and plan for advance care planning (the care they would want if they were unable…
- Conditions
- Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Recurrent Hematologic Malignancy, Refractory Hematologic Malignancy
- Trial name
- NCT04515810
- Testing
- Internet-Based Intervention, Best Practice, Telephone-Based Intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Advance Directives, Oncology
ACCEPTABILITY AND WRITING FREQUENCY OF ADVANCED DIRECTIVES IN ONCO-DERMATOLOGY PATIENTS
The law about advance directives is evolving but, in France, few people write it. Te main endpoint of this research is to estimate the proportion of patients who have written their advance directives or considering doing so in…
- Conditions
- Advance Directives, Oncology, Skin Cancer, Melanoma
- Trial name
- PADAONCODERM (NCT03822988)
- Testing
- no intervention, only complete a survey
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Central Hospital, Nancy, France
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
Aging
Comparison of an Easy to Read Advance Directive Versus a Standard Advance Directive
The purpose of this study is to compare the acceptability, usefulness, self-efficacy and comprehension of an easy-to-read advance directive form versus a standard advance directive form written at a post graduate reading level.
- Trial name
- NCT00328055
- Testing
- AD-Easy (Advance Directive-Easy), AD-Standard (Advance Directive-Standard)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Cancer, Coping Skills
Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care
The study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a mindfulness meditation-based intervention designed to provide a synergistic solution to the avoidant coping that often inhibits advance care…
- Trial name
- MODEL Care (NCT02367508)
- Testing
- MODEL Care
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
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
Advanced Medical Directive, a Legal Document Signed in Advance to State Healthcare Preferences
Increasing the Uptake of Advanced Directives in SingHealth Polyclinics
An Advanced Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document in Singapore that allows one to inform their medical practitioner that they do not want any life-sustaining treatment should they become unconscious and terminally ill where…
- Trial name
- NCT03499847
- Testing
- standardised face-to-face counselling session, advanced medical directive pamphlet
- Where
- 4 sites in Singapore
- Volunteers
- 189 people
- Sponsor
- SingHealth Polyclinics
Advance Care Planning, Ethnic Minorities
Advance Care Planning Among Older People From Moroccon Origin in Belgium
Advance care planning (ACP) enables individuals to define goals and preferences for future medical treatment and care, to discuss these goals and preferences with family and health-care providers, and to record and review these…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Ethnic Minorities, Moroccans, Advance Medical Directives
- Trial name
- NCT04335214
- Testing
- one to one interview
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
COPD, Severe or Very Severe Airflow Obstruction and/or Receiving or Eligible to Receive Long-term Oxygen Therapy
Study of Default Options in Advance Directives
Default options represent the events or conditions that are set into place if no alternatives are actively chosen. The setting of default options has well-established effects on a broad range of human decisions, but its influence…
- Conditions
- COPD, Severe or Very Severe Airflow Obstruction and/or Receiving or Eligible to Receive Long-term Oxygen Therapy, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Other Interstitial Lung Disease Without Curative Therapy
- Trial name
- NCT01817686
- Testing
- Comfort Default AD forms, Life Extension Default AD forms, Standard Default AD forms
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people
- Sponsor
- Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA 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
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
End-of-life
Advanced Directives in Palliative Care (DAVPAL)
A prospective, single-blinded, controlled, and randomized trial to find if physician's use of the Portuguese Advance Directives, in palliative care, as a communication tool between patients and caregivers, improves the agreement…
- Trial name
- DAVPAL (NCT05090072)
- Testing
- Advance Directives, Control
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 116 people
- Sponsor
- Universidade do Porto
Advance Care Planning, Vulnerable Populations
Using an End-of-life Conversation Game to Engage Underserved Communities in Advance Care Planning
This national project will provide an effective, evidence-based intervention for advance care planning (ACP) to 50 underserved US communities, those with poor access to healthcare systems due to economic, cultural or other…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Vulnerable Populations, Advance Directives, Terminal Illness
- Trial name
- NCT03456921
- Testing
- End-of-life conversation game called "Hello"
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,122 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- 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: Phase 2
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 various solid cancer types (including: breast…
- Conditions
- Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Genito-Urinary Cancer, Colorectal Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT06384417
- Testing
- Hello for Cancer game, Table Topics game
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Critical Illness, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Hospitalized Elderly Patients
The purpose of the study is to inform decision-makers of the best strategies to implement advanced care planning (ACP). An advanced care plan (ACP) is a verbal or written instruction describing what kind of care an individual…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, Cirrhosis
- Trial name
- ACCEPT (NCT01362855)
- Where
- 9 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 503 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Daren K. Heyland
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
End Stage Renal Disease
Choice Sets for Advance Directives
There is a large gap between the care seriously ill patients want and the care they receive. Advance directives (ADs) offer an opportunity for patients to express specific end-of-life preferences to avoid unwanted care.
- Trial name
- NCT02209038
- Testing
- Expanded AD Choice, Expanded Life-sustaining Therapy Choice
- Where
- 15 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 321 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania