An Intervention to Improve Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Deactivation Conversations

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

562

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 30, 2011

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2016

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2016

Conditions
CommunicationHeart Failure
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Communication training for cardiologists.

"Communication training: a 90 minute workshop to discuss ways to improve communication in patients with serious illness.~Reminders to Cardiologists. Cardiologists will receive reminders to prompt them to have conversations relating to ICD management with patients enrolled in the study.~Audit and feedback. Cardiologists will receive feedback on their rates of conversation as well as data on patient/family satisfaction with their communication skills."

OTHER

Control arm

Cardiology grand rounds will be held at usual care sites on the importance of advance care planning.

Trial Locations (6)

10023

Montefiore Medical Center, The Bronx

10029

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

19104

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

55905

Mayo Medical Center, Rochester

80045

University of Colorado - Denver, Denver

06510

Yale New-Haven Hospital, New Haven

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

NIH

collaborator

University of Colorado, Denver

OTHER

collaborator

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

collaborator

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

collaborator

Oregon Health and Science University

OTHER

collaborator

Montefiore Medical Center

OTHER

lead

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

OTHER