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| Title |
Impact of advance care planning on the care of patients with heart failure: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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| Published in |
Trials, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13063-016-1414-1 |
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| Authors |
Chetna Malhotra, David Kheng Leng Sim, Fazlur Jaufeerally, Nivedita Nadkarni Vikas, Genevieve Wong Cheng Sim, Boon Cheng Tan, Clarice Shu Hwa Ng, Pei Leng Tho, Jingfen Lim, Claire Ya-Ting Chuang, Florence Hui Mei Fong, Joy Liu, Eric A. Finkelstein |
| Abstract |
Despite the promise and popularity of advance care planning, there is insufficient evidence that advance care planning helps patients to meet their end-of-life care preferences, especially in Asian settings. Thus, the proposed study aims to assess whether patients with advanced heart failure who are receiving advance care planning have a greater likelihood of receiving end-of-life care consistent with their preferences compared to patients receiving usual care. Secondary objectives are to compare differences in health care expenditures, quality of life, anxiety and depression, understanding of own illness, participation in decision-making and concordance with their caregiver's preferences for end-of-life care, between patients with advanced heart failure receiving advance care planning and usual care. This is a two-arm randomized controlled trial of advance care planning versus usual care (control) conducted at two institutions in Singapore. Two hundred and eighty-two patients with advanced heart failure (n = 94 in the advance care planning arm; n = 188 in the control arm receiving usual care) will be recruited from these centers and followed for 1 year or until they die, whichever is earlier. Additionally, the study will include up to one caregiver per patient enrolled. If advance care planning is proven to be effective, the results will help to promote its uptake among health care providers and patients both within Singapore and in other countries. NCT02299180 . Registered on 18 November 2014. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 101 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 12 | 12% |
| Researcher | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 19% |
| Unknown | 41 | 40% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 16% |
| Psychology | 7 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Unknown | 42 | 41% |