Clinical trials: End-of-life Decision Making
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
Cancer
Building Evidence for Effective Palliative/End of Life Care for Teens With Cancer
To test the efficacy of FACE-TC on key outcomes, the investigators propose using an intent-to-treat, longitudinal, prospective, multi-site, randomized controlled trial (RCT) design.
- Trial name
- FACE-TC (NCT02693665)
- Testing
- FAmily CEntered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 260 people
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Communication, Advance Directives
Choice of Diction's Effect
The purpose of the research is to determine how the language used when discussing preferences about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) affects decisions regarding this (code status)
- Conditions
- Communication, Advance Directives, Decision Making, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Trial name
- CODE (NCT04896411)
- Testing
- Alternative phrasing for no code, Standard of care for no code
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kidney Failure, End of Life
Feasibility Testing a shareD dEciSIon Making Intervention for People With Kidney failuRE, Their Relatives, and the Health Professionals in Kidney Services: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Study Protocol
The aim of this research is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a shared decision making intervention and a patient decision aid to support patients with kidney failure, relatives, and health professionals in planning…
- Trial name
- DESIRE (NCT05842772)
- Testing
- Shared decision making intervention for patients with kidney failure when planning end-of-life care
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Chronic Kidney Disease
Shared Decision Making and Renal Supportive Care
This year, 90,000 Americans with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) will die and questions will legitimately be raised as to whether terminal treatment and location of death adequately represented their preferences.
- Trial name
- SDMRSC (NCT02405312)
- Testing
- advance care planning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 172 people
- Sponsor
- Baystate Medical Center
Chronic Disease
A Community-based Advance Care Planning Programme for Patients With Advanced Disease
Advance care planning has been recommended as an integral part of care for patients with life-limiting disease, but relevant development in Hong Kong is still in its infancy.
- Trial name
- NCT02068651
- Testing
- Advance care planning programme
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 239 people
- Sponsor
- Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong
Palliative Care, Decision Making
Feasibility Of An Advanced Care Decision Aid Among Patients And Physicians_Matlock
The investigators propose an evaluation of an end of life patient decision aid (EOL-PtDA) developed by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making using the RE-AIM (Reach Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and…
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Decision Making, Decision Support Techniques, Decision Support Systems, Clinical
- Trial name
- NCT01190488
- Testing
- End-of-Life / Advanced Care Decision Aid, Active Comparator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
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
Advanced Care Planning for the Severely Ill Home-dwelling Elderly
This study will develop and evaluate a complex intervention to implement advance care planning for severely ill home-dwelling elderly acutely admitted to hospital, by using a cluster randomized design.
- Trial name
- NCT05681585
- Testing
- Implementation support program
- Where
- 12 sites in Norway
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oslo
Heart Failure
End-Of-Life Decision Making and Preparedness Planning Among Heart Failure Patients Hospitalized for Advanced Disease
Heart failure is a chronic and frequently terminal illness associated with poor quality of life and high burden of morbidity, re-hospitalization, and cost.
- Trial name
- NCT02398617
- Testing
- Decision Making Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- Saint Luke's Health System
Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
A Culturally Sensitive Values-Guided Aid for End of Life Decision-Making
The goal of this research agenda is to improve the quality of end-of-life care by explicitly identifying values that will guide the decision-making process, with a particular emphasis on the role of ethnic, racial and cultural…
- Conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Cirrhosis, Colon Carcinoma
- Trial name
- Aim3 (NCT00122135)
- Testing
- Values Inventory (VI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Ethics, Narrative
Ethical Deliberation in the Intensive Care Unit, Impact of Formalized Multidisciplinary Team Meetings, a Pilot Study
Most patients who die in the intensive care unit do so after a withholding or withdrawing of life sustaining treatments (WWLST) decision.
- Trial name
- NCT05722431
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 450 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Tours
Traumatic Brain Injury
TBI-Prognosis Multicenter Prospective Study
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability among people under 45 years of age and a major public health problem.
- Trial name
- NCT02452541
- Testing
- Prognostic tests
- Where
- 17 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 315 people
- Sponsor
- CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval
Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure
Educational Videos to Address Racial Disparities in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy
VIVID is a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trial in African American patients that will to evaluate: (1) the effect of an educational video on knowledge of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and implantable cardioverter…
- Trial name
- VIVID (NCT02819973)
- Testing
- Educational Video1, Educational Video 2, Usual Care 3
- Where
- 14 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 343 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Normal Physiology
Focus Groups to Determine Surrogates Views Regarding Patient Preference Predictors
Background: Some people cannot make medical treatment decisions on their own. The people who make decisions on their behalf are called medical surrogates.
- Trial name
- NCT02898194
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Systolic Heart Failure, Sudden Cardiac Death
A Pilot Trial of Patient Decision Aids for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICDs)
The purpose of this study is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a "toolkit" of patient decision aids (PtDAs) for heart failure patients who are considering an ICD implant.
- Trial name
- NCT02026102
- Testing
- ICD Decision Aid Toolkit
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver