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An Advance Care Planning Intervention in the Emergency Department: a Randomized Controlled Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating ED GOAL for Congestive Heart Failure and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 141 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This is a two-armed, parallel-design, pre-/post-intervention assessment study. The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial for ED GOAL on a cohort of 120 older adults with serious illness to collect patient-centered outcomes and determine preliminary efficacy on increasing advance care planning engagement (self-reported and/or in the electronic medical record) one month after leaving the emergency department. The investigators will also conduct qualitative interviews with participants of ED GOAL.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The emergency department clinician-led, behavioral intervention (ED GOAL) is designed to engage seriously ill yet clinically stable older adults in the emergency department to address their values and preferences towards end-of-life care with their outpatient clinicians. The intervention consists of an interview to discuss participants' values and preferences for end-of-life care. The participants will receive coaching on how to initiate/re-introduce discussions about end-of-life wishes with their loved ones and outpatient clinicians. The participants' outpatient clinicians will also receive a summary of what participants disclosed via email or mailed letter.