Utilising advance care planning videos to empower perioperative cancer patients and families: a study protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite positive health outcomes associated with advance care planning (ACP), little research has investigated the impact of ACP in surgical populations. Our goal is to evaluate how an ACP intervention video impacts the patient centredness and ACP of the patient-surgeon conversation during the presurgical consent visit. We hypothesise that patients who view the intervention will engage in a more patient-centred communication with their surgeons compared with patients who view a control video.

Methods and analysis

Randomised controlled superiority trial of an ACP video with two study arms (intervention ACP video and control video) and four visits (baseline, presurgical consent, postoperative 1 week and postoperative 1 month). Surgeons, patients, principal investi

SUBMITTER: Aslakson RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5726140 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature