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Advance Care Planning: A Way to Improve End-of-life Care Life Care
Advance Care Planning: A Way to Improve End-of-life Care
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Communication about end-of-life issues is often suboptimal. A way to improve the quality of end-of-life care is Advance Care Planning (ACP). ACP is a discussion between an incurable ill patient and the health professionals about preferences for end-of-life care. In Denmark, there is no tradition of systematic communication with patients about end-of-life care. The aim is to investigate how ACP can be beneficial among incurable ill patients treated in an outpatient context and if the concept is feasible in a Danish context. The study is designed as a prospective randomised controlled trial. Patients from relevant departments will be included and randomised in two groups: one receiving usual care and the other receiving usual care and ACP. Data will be collected from Electronic Patient Files and from questionnaires. If ACP is effective, it will improve the quality of end-of-life care for patients and their families and reduce the psychological distress in the bereaved relatives.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart Failure | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Neoplasms | Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.90 |
| Pulmonary Disease | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACp conversation | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention: ACP conversation
- description
- Intervention: Advance Care Planning conersation between a healtprofessionel and a patient about end-of-life discussions.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: ACp conversation
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- No intervention: usual care
- description
- No intervention just usual care
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- The proportion of patients who had their preferences regarding place of care and place of death met
- timeFrame
- 1.7.2015
Secondary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Eligible patients from the departments of oncology, cardiology and respiratory medicine at Aarhus University Hospital * the patient is over 18 * acceptable Danish language skills Exclusion Criteria: * cognitive impairment * expected to dy within the next month * has no relatives
References
Publications (2)
- DERIVEDNeergaard MA, Skorstengaard MH, Brogaard T, Bendstrup E, Lokke A, Aagaard S, Wiggers H, Andreassen P, Jensen AB. Advance care planning and longer survival in the terminally ill: a randomised controlled trial unexpected finding. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2020 Jun;10(2):221-222. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001906. Epub 2019 Dec 10. No abstract available. PMID 31822479
- DERIVEDSkorstengaard MH, Jensen AB, Andreassen P, Brogaard T, Brendstrup E, Lokke A, Aagaard S, Wiggers H, Neergaard MA. Advance care planning and place of death, hospitalisation and actual place of death in lung, heart and cancer disease: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2020 Dec;10(4):e37. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001677. Epub 2019 Apr 11. PMID 30975712