Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT01325519

Conditions

Decision Making

Video Decision Aids

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

video decision aid

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to compare the decision making of hospitalized subjects having a verbal discussion about CPR compared to subjects using a video.

Conditions

Decision Making

Video Decision Aids

Study ID

NCT01325519

Start date

Mar, 2011

Status verified date

Nov, 2020

Primary completion date

Mar, 2012

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria

1. Over the age of 60
2. The ability to provide informed consent
3. The ability to communicate in English
4. And one of the following:

1. An established diagnosis of metastatic cancer or
2. An established diagnosis of advanced heart failure (NYHA class III/IV heart failure) or
3. An established diagnosis of chronic obstructive lung disease with an FEV1 < 50% or
4. Two hospitalizations within the last 6 months or
5. An advanced illness or multiple comorbidities that are not otherwise specified with an overall prognosis of one year or less confirmed with the attending physician on service. Exclusion Criterion

1. Subject scores 6 or less on the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire, which is indicative of cognitive impairment.

Study Design

Enrollment

150 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: no intervention control group

control subjects

experimental: experimental intervention group

video decision aid viewed by subjects

Interventions

video decision aid

video

Primary outcome measure

  • preferences for medical care [ Time Frame: within 48 hours of admission to the hospital ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

MGH

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114

Contacts

Angelo Volandes

avolandes@partners.org

Principal Investigator:

Angelo Voalndes

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

Nov 17, 2020

Last verified

Nov, 2020

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2020-11-17.