Overview
A randomized controlled trial of a video decision aid in the Emergency Department Setting to improve advance care planning documentation.
Description
A randomized controlled trial of a video decision aid in the Emergency Department setting shown to patients followed by a brief advance care planning discussion and then relay that discussion to the patient's primary care provider and/or admitting clinical team and look at rates of advance care planning documentation in the electronic health record over time. Primary outcome is advance care planning documentation in the EHR at 3 months.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- anyone aged 65 and over or anyone aged over 50-64 with an indicator of serious illness
Exclusion Criteria:
- non english or spanish speakers those with a POLST legally blind medically non stable requiring ICU level care