Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT06090552

Conditions

Surgical Advanced Care Planning

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Letter

AD

PREPARE website

reminders

healthcare navigator

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of the Advanced Care Planning (ACP) study is to encourage patients aged 65 or older who are referred for elective surgery to have advanced care planning.

Conditions

Surgical Advanced Care Planning

Study ID

NCT06090552

Start date

Feb 26, 2025

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Aug 31, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

\- Older Adults (age 65+) referred for surgical evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

1. ACP on file within 3 years prior to surgery (UCSF and UCI) and 5 years (UMN)
2. Was previously randomized into intervention for a prior surgery during the 18-month study period

Study Design

Enrollment

6000 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

other: Letter, AD, PREPARE

Letter about ACP, PREPARE advanced directive (AD), PREPARE website

other: Letter, AD, PREPARE, reminders

Letter, AD, PREPARE plus reminder messages

other: Letter, AD, PREPARE, reminders, healthcare navigator

Letter, AD, PREPARE website plus reminders plus a healthcare navigator on ACP documentation (clinically meaningful ACP, primary outcome)

Interventions

Letter

Letter about ACP

AD

PREPARE advanced directive (AD)

PREPARE website

PREPARE website

reminders

reminders to complete the advance directive

healthcare navigator

healthcare navigators provide assistance to complete the advance directive

Primary outcome measure

  • Number of participants with clinically meaningful Advanced Care Planning [ Time Frame: 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Elizabeth Wick, MD

415-353-2357Elizabeth.wick@ucsf.edu

Irina Gorodetskaya

415-514-7430Irina.Gorodetskaya@ucsf.edu

Locations

University of California, Irvine

Recruiting

Irvine, California, United States, 92697

Contacts

Jeein Kim

949-697-9706jeeink2@hs.uci.edu

Neika Saville

nsaville@hs.uci.edu

Principal Investigator:

Joseph Carmichael

University of California, San Francisco

Recruiting

San Francisco, California, United States, 94143

Contacts

Irina Gorodetskaya

415-514-7430Irina.Gorodetskaya@ucsf.edu

Sandra P Oreper

sandra.martinez2@ucsf.edu

Principal Investigator:

Elizabeth Wick, MD

University of Minnesota

Recruiting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455

Contacts

Erin Linden, MPH

linde491@umn.edu

Principal Investigator:

Genevieve Melton-Meaux

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Last update posted

Aug 11, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Francisco on 2026-08-11.