Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Montreal Heart Institute

Code:

NCT02680327

Conditions

Advanced Care Planning

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a prospective epidemiological pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients in a large multicenter study that will audit Advanced Care Planning (ACP) practices and satisfaction with End Of Life (EOL) communication and decision-making in patients undergoing cardiac surgery using the current validated questionnaires and methodology.

Conditions

Advanced Care Planning

Study ID

NCT02680327

Start date

Oct, 2015

Status verified date

Feb, 2016

Completion date

Jul, 2016

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2016

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age and over 70 years
  • Admitted for cardiac surgery;
  • Able to speak English or French;

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Age under 70 years;
  • Unable to participate in the follow-up telephone survey;
  • Unable to speak English or French.

Study Design

Enrollment

35 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Primary outcome measure

  • Successful study completion [ Time Frame: 1 month ]
  • Time frame [ Time Frame: 1 month ]
  • Gait test [ Time Frame: 1 month ]
  • patient retention [ Time Frame: 1 month ]
  • Screen failure rate [ Time Frame: 1 month ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jennifer Cogan, MD, FRCPC

514-376-3330jennifer.cogan@gmail.com

Locations

Montreal Heart Institute

Recruiting

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H1T 1C8

Contacts

Jennifer Cogan, MD, FRCPC

514-376-3330jennifer.cogan@gmail.com

More Information

Sponsor

Montreal Heart Institute

Last update posted

Feb 11, 2016

Last verified

Feb, 2016

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Montreal Heart Institute on 2016-02-11.