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In a multicenter, randomized clinical trial of default options in advance directives among patients with incurable diseases, we will determine whether this simple and readily scalable intervention can improve patients quality of life and reduce resource utilization without reducing the number of days that patients are alive and living outside of an acute-care hospital.
Age
18 - No limit years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Perelman Center for Advance Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Start Date
January 1, 2014
Primary Completion Date
November 1, 2016
Completion Date
November 1, 2016
Last Updated
April 1, 2019
270
ESTIMATED participants
Life-extension default advance directive
BEHAVIORAL
Comfort default advance directive
BEHAVIORAL
Lead Sponsor
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborators
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