Videogame intervention to increase advance care planning conversations by hospitalists with older adults: study protocol for a stepped-wedge clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Fewer than half of all people in the USA have a documented advance care plan (ACP). Hospitalisation offers an opportunity for physicians to initiate ACP conversations. Despite expert recommendations, hospital-based physicians (hospitalists) do not routinely engage in these conversations, reserving them for the critically ill.The objective of this study is to test the effect of a novel behavioural intervention on the incidence of ACP conversations by hospitalists practicing at a stratified random sample of hospitals drawn from 220 US acute care hospitals staffed by a large, nationwide acute care physician practice with an ongoing ACP quality improvement initiative.

Methods and analysis

We developed Hopewell Hospitalist, a theory-based adventure video game,

SUBMITTER: Mohan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986882 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature