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Advance Care Planning for Cancer

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Neil S Wenger, MD
Research Sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 24 months
Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will be testing three different ways to help people plan for their healthcare, by either providing them with information, prompting them to use a website, or engaging with them directly. They will be measuring how well these different approaches work in terms of getting people to complete an advance directive (a legal document that outlines someone's healthcare wishes), and whether people receive the care they want in accordance with their directive.

Eligible Conditions
  • Advance Directives
  • Cancer
  • Advance Care Planning

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~24 months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 24 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Advance directive completion, 12 months
Research cohort: Goal concordant care, cross-sectional survey, 12 months
Secondary outcome measures
Advance directive completion, 24 months
New advance directive completion, 12 months
New advance directive completion, 24 months
+4 more
Other outcome measures
Healthcare utilization among decedents
Research cohort: advance care planning process, 12 months
Research cohort: advance care planning process, 24 months

Trial Design

3Treatment groups
Active Control
Group I: Advance directive, Prepare and FacilitatorActive Control3 Interventions
Messaging and advance directive distribution, introduction to the Prepare For Your Care website, plus patient engagement from a trained facilitator who also can interact with the primary care physician. All arms receive physician advance care planning education at the clinic level.
Group II: Advance directiveActive Control1 Intervention
Messaging and advance directive distribution. All arms receive physician advance care planning education at the clinic level.
Group III: Advance directive and PrepareActive Control2 Interventions
Messaging and advance directive distribution plus introduction to the Prepare For Your Care website. All arms receive physician advance care planning education at the clinic level.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of California, IrvineOTHER
543 Previous Clinical Trials
1,916,601 Total Patients Enrolled
University of California, Los AngelesLead Sponsor
1,529 Previous Clinical Trials
10,271,402 Total Patients Enrolled
University of California, San FranciscoOTHER
2,505 Previous Clinical Trials
15,231,155 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Advance directive Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT04012749 — N/A
Advance Directives Research Study Groups: Advance directive, Prepare and Facilitator, Advance directive, Advance directive and Prepare
Advance Directives Clinical Trial 2023: Advance directive Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT04012749 — N/A
Advance directive 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT04012749 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What is the primary goal of this clinical investigation?

"With the main aim of advancing directive completion within 12 months or death, this clinical trial will evaluate secondary objectives such as goal concordant care, cross-sectional survey over 24 months and new advance directive completion at 12 months. In order to account for patient clustering amongst clinics and other factors like age, gender, race/ethnicity etc., logistic regression models will be utilized in an 'as treated' analysis. Finally, a modified Bereaved Family Survey will measure caregiver reports on end of life care quality among decedents."

Answered by AI

Is this trial actively seeking participants at this time?

"Clinicaltrials.gov does not list this particular trial as seeking participants at the moment, given that it was last updated on September 29th 2021 and originally posted two years prior. Fortunately, 166 other trials are still looking for volunteers to join their studies."

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Who else is applying?

What state do they live in?
Texas
What portion of applicants met pre-screening criteria?
Did not meet criteria
How many prior treatments have patients received?
0
~1164 spots leftby Apr 2025