A follow-up study to evaluate the advance care planning program ?Beizeiten Begleiten? (care in good time) in one region?s nursing homes
Completed
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning (advance directives)Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN91308077
- Lead Sponsor
- German National Ministry of Education and Research (German)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 286
Inclusion Criteria
In order to examine the ACP program?s effect comprehensively, we studied the prevalence and properties of advance directives in two samples of the enrolled nursing homes:
Sample 1: Residents currently living in the enrolled nursing homes at the date of data collection (adults of either sex)
Sample 2: Random sample of residents deceased between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2010 (adults of either sex)
Exclusion Criteria
Residents who moved in during the last three months before data collection
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Availability of advance directives (in the resident's charts) that are:<br>1. Valid (defined by a physician's or specifically qualified non-physician's signature)<br>2. Emergency-relevant (defined by clearly deciding the question of CPR in case of cardiac arrest on one page, possibly on a separate form, also validated by a physician's or qualified non-physician's signature)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Valid (defined by a physician's or specifically qualified non-physician's signature) - validity defined by the signature of ANY third person<br>2. Emergency-relevant (defined by clearly deciding the question of CPR in case of cardiac arrest on one page, possibly on a separate form, also validated by a physician's or qualified non-physician's signature) - only residents who moved in after 1 July 2010<br>3. Prevalence of just an emergency-relevant document with physician's signature<br>4. Designation of a proxy decision maker (durable power of attorney)<br>5. Number of months since advance directive was last updated