Clinical trial NCT02680327: Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Elderly Cardiac Surgery Patients
Official title: A Feasibility Study on: Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Elderly Cardiac Surgery Patients
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Advanced Care Planning
Lead sponsor: Montreal Heart Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-02-11
Enrollment: 35
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 70
Maximum age (years): 95
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients 70 years of age and over admitted for cardiac surgery that requires a general anesthetic (either via median sternotomy, minimally invasive or percutaneous approach);

Brief summary: This is a prospective epidemiological pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients in a large multicenter study that will audit Advanced Care Planning (ACP) practices and satisfaction with End Of Life (EOL) communication and decision-making in patients undergoing cardiac surgery using the current validated questionnaires and methodology.

Detailed description: Study Procedures:

Once patients have signed an informed consent they will be asked to complete the ACP evaluation questionnaire. Their level of frailty will be assessed with the 5-meter walk test. Two weeks after discharge (+ or - 7 days) they will be contacted by phone in order to complete 3 sections of the CANHELP questionnaire.

Study Tools

Patient questionnaires:

1. ACP Evaluation questionnaire: 5 questions about advance care planning on admission to hospital from CANHELP study (time predicted 10 minutes)
2. CANHELP questionnaire (sections relationship with doctors, communication and decision making) 2 weeks after discharge (time predicted 25 minutes)

Patient test:

1. 5-minute gait speed

   Patient Assessment Data
2. Standard Demographics
3. Anthropometric data
4. Cardiac variables
5. Comorbidities
6. Lab Values
7. Frailty (assessed using 5-meter gait speed)

Post-surgical outcome data (will be sought in the chart after 30 days post-surgery)

1. Outcome
2. Complications

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age and over 70 years
* Admitted for cardiac surgery;
* Able to speak English or French;

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age under 70 years;
* Unable to participate in the follow-up telephone survey;
* Unable to speak English or French.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Successful study completion
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Time frame
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Gait test
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: patient retention
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Screen failure rate
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Overall satisfaction
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Prevalence of ACP
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Percentage of frail patients
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Level of correlation between "level of frailty" and "satisfaction with decision making".
timeFrame: 1 month
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Montreal Heart Institute
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: Montreal Heart Institute
name: Jennifer Cogan, MD, FRCPC
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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