N/A
N=132
The Influence of Default Options in Advance Directives
Advance Care Planning
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01346176 ↗Enrolled (actual)
132
Serious AEs
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Results posted
Feb 2016
Primary outcome: Primary: Proportion of Subjects Who Select Palliative Care Options — 31; 50; 47 percentage who select palliative care
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Advance Directive Forms (Other)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 50+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Primary completion
- Mar 2012
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Proportion of Subjects Who Select Palliative Care Options |
31; 50; 47 | — |
| SECONDARY Patient Satisfaction With Advance Care Planning. |
4.51; 4.61; 4.56 | — |
Summary
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 options in advance directives influences their selections of life-extending therapies by manipulating the default options of advance directives given to patients in with severe respiratory disease
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), non-small-cell lung cancer, or other interstitial or fibrotic lung disease
- Neither listed for nor considering solid organ transplantation
- Anticipated survival of less than 2 years
- Must be fluent and literate in English
Exclusion Criteria
- Diagnosis of small-cell lung cancer or other respiratory diseases for which life extending medical therapies may be available
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01346176). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.