Status:

COMPLETED

Assessment of Pulmonary Specialty Physicians' Approach to Advanced Care Planning in Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Diseases

Lead Sponsor:

Jennifer McCallister MD

Conditions:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Pulmonary Fibrosis

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-88 years

Brief Summary

To understand current practices of pulmonary physicians in relation to Advanced Care Planning (ACP) in order to develop future disease-specific tools that will improve patient-physician communication ...

Detailed Description

The study will be a retrospective, observational study and analysis of charts of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or pulmonary fibrosis treated as outpatients at the Ohio Sta...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients who are between 18 and 88 years of age who have been diagnosed with a physician diagnosis of COPD based on at least one of the following:
  • clinical history - a documented history of COPD, emphysema, or chronic bronchitis.
  • pulmonary function results - defined as an forced expiratory volume in one second to forced vital capacity ratio (FEV1/FVC) less than 0.7
  • Patients who are between 18 and 88 years of age and have been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis based on the following:
  • Subpleural, basal predominance of parenchymal abnormality on high resolution computed tomography (HRCT)
  • Reticular abnormality on HRCT
  • Honeycombing without traction bronchiectasis on HRCT
  • Absence of features that are inconsistent with usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern OR
  • UIP based on surgical lung biopsy

Exclusion

  • Age \< 18 years or \> 88 years
  • Prisoners
  • Pregnant patients

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2013

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

93 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01825538

Start Date

February 1 2013

End Date

June 1 2014

Last Update

July 25 2014

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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210