Status:

COMPLETED

Impact of Advance Care Planning on Care for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

Lead Sponsor:

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Heart Centre Singapore

Singapore General Hospital

Conditions:

Heart Failure

Eligibility:

All Genders

21+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Aims: Advance care planning (ACP) is considered to be one of the most promising interventions to enable patients with life limiting illnesses to receive treatment at the end of life (EOL) according to...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patient participant:
  • Patients must be 21 years old or older and must be diagnosed with advanced heart failure (New York Heart Association Class III and IV). Patients must be aware of their diagnosis
  • Caregiver/Decision-maker participant: Subject must be 21 years old or older Participant must be either
  • appointed substitute decision maker or
  • most likely to be substitute decision maker for patient (if patient were to lose decision-making capacity)

Exclusion

  • Patient participant: Patients must not have any psychiatric or cognitive disorders
  • Caregiver/Decision-maker participant: Cannot be a maid or foreign domestic worker

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

282 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02299180

Start Date

February 1 2015

End Date

June 1 2018

Last Update

February 8 2019

Active Locations (2)

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Singapore General Hospital

Singapore, Singapore, 169608

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National Heart Centre Singapore

Singapore, Singapore, 169609