Advance Care Planning for Patients with advanced illnesses attending hospital outpatient clinics study
- Conditions
- advance care planningpalliative caredementiachronic diseaseaged carePublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12617000280303
- Lead Sponsor
- South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 197
1. Attending an outpatient clinic of participating clinical services in the study.
2. Identified by Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT Trademark) as potentially having supportive and palliative care needs and at risk of dying in the next 12 months.
3. Identified by the ACP screening tool as not having a current Advance Care Directive / Plan or an enduring guardian AND is interested in engaging in further Advance Care Planning discussions.
4. Willing and able to give written informed consent and willing to participate to and comply with the study (or if the person lacks decision making capacity then the person responsible is willing to provide informed consent).
1. Less than 18 years of age.
2. Pregnant.
3. Identified by the ACP screening tool as having both an enduring guardian and an Advance Care Directive / Plan or is not interested in Advance Care Planning discussions.
4. Current inpatient.
5. Patient (or if patient lacks decision making capacity, guardian or person responsible) is unable or unwilling to provide informed consent.
6. Permanent resident of residential aged care facility.
7. Unable to provide informed consent and participate in ACP conducted in English due to difficulties in understanding and speaking English.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method umber of unplanned hospital admissions as assessed by chart audit of patient medical records.[At 6 months and at 18 months]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method