Emergency department-based, nurse-initiated, serious illness conversation intervention for older adults: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visits to the emergency department (ED) are inflection points in patients' illness trajectories and are an underutilized setting to engage seriously ill patients in conversations about their goals of care. We developed an intervention (ED GOAL) that primes seriously ill patients to discuss their goals of care with their outpatient clinicians after leaving the ED. The aims of this study are (i) to test the impact of ED GOAL administered by trained nurses on self-reported, advance care planning (ACP) engagement after leaving the ED and (ii) to evaluate whether ED GOAL increases self-reported completion of serious illness conversation and other patient-centered outcomes.

Methods

This is a two-armed, parallel-design, single-blinded, randomized controlled trial of 120

SUBMITTER: Prachanukool T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9549655 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature