Status:
COMPLETED
Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and Shared Decision Making for End of Life Care
Lead Sponsor:
University of Zurich
Conditions:
Palliative Patients
Surrogate Decision Maker
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Multiprofessional Advance Care Planning and shared decision making for end of live care for terminal patients and their relatives. The aim of this study is to develop, implement and test a complex in...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion criteria: -patients in which the treating physician on the ward would not be surprised if the patient died during the next year (surprise question of Weissman et al 2011)
- male and female patients above 18 years of age
- signed informed consent after being informed
- patients able to appoint a surrogate decision maker (SM) and/or responsible physician to be contacted after discharge
- Exclusion criteria: -patients not capable of speaking german
- patients having no responsible physician to be contacted after discharge and no relative/future surrogate decision maker (SM)
- inhouse patients being discharged within the next 2 days or ambulatory patients not regularly coming to the wards (at least every two month)
- patients assessed by their physician to be in obvious denial of their situation (illness/prognosis)
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
115 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01914848
Start Date
July 1 2013
End Date
August 1 2015
Last Update
June 6 2016
Active Locations (1)
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University Hospital Zurich, Clinical Ethics
Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, 8091