80
Participants
Start Date
June 30, 2013
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2015
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2015
goals of care
. Patients in the GoC intervention group, telephone coaching by a research nurse to help patients role-play talking with their HF providers. Both patients and their providers, will be provided with summaries of individualized, patient-centered information about patient preferences for communicating about end-of-life care and patient self-identified barriers to and facilitators of communication about end-of-life care with tips on how to initiate goals of care discussions. Providers of patients in the intervention group will also be provided with patient-specific prognostic information based on the Seattle Heart Failure Model.
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Washington
OTHER