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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1
Singapore General Hospital
Singapore, Singapore, 169608
2
National Heart Centre Singapore
Singapore, Singapore, 169609