NCT05596760Active, not recruiting
Promoting Goals-of-Care Discussions for Patients With Memory Problems and Their Caregivers
Hybrid Efficacy-effectiveness Trial to Promote Goals-of-care Discussions for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and Their Family Caregivers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to improve communication among clinicians, patients with memory problems, and their family members. We are testing a way to help clinicians have better conversations to address patients' goals for their healthcare. To do this, we created a simple, short guide called the "Jumpstart Guide." The goal of this research study is to show that using this kind of guide is possible and can be helpful for patients and their families. Patients' clinicians may receive a Jumpstart Guide before the patient's clinic visit. Researchers will compare patients whose clinician received a Jumpstart Guide to patients whose clinician did not receive a guide to see if more patients in the Jumpstart Guide group had conversations about the patient's goals for their healthcare. Patients and their family members will also be asked to complete surveys after the visit with their clinician.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1802 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Oct 2022
- Start date
- 11 Sept 2023
- Primary completion date
- 19 May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Washington
- NCT number
- NCT05596760
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 1802
- From 11 Sept 2023 to the primary completion date, 19 May 2026
- 3 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- psychological illness or morbidity preventing completion of study materials
Other
- restricted status, legal or risk management concerns
- without capacity to complete informed consent procedures and without a legal surrogate to enroll them (for the survey component or qualitative interviews)
- non-English speaking (for the survey component or qualitative interviews)
- patients of a clinician who has opted-out of the study will not be eligible for the study under the care of that clinician but may be eligible if they also receive care from another clinician in a participating clinic
- FAMILY MEMBERS
- legal or risk management concerns
- physical or mental limitations preventing completion of study materials
- non-English speaking
- Not all patients will have an eligible family member to enroll.
- CLINICIANS
- legal or risk management concerns
Who the study is looking for
- Be cared for as an outpatient at a UW Medicine clinic
- 55 years of age or older
- Have an ICD-10 code for ADRD documented in the EHR within the prior two years
- If patients are cared for in a primary care setting within UW Medicine or by a geriatrician or neurologist, only a diagnosis of ADRD is required for eligibility.
- If patients have ADRD and are not followed by a primary care clinician at UW Medicine but are followed by a subspecialist, eligible patients must also have an ICD-10 code for one or more of seven chronic conditions used by the Dartmouth Atlas, relevant for the specialist they see, to ensure that goals-of care discussions are applicable for these specialists in the care of the enrolled patient. These conditions by specialist are: malignant cancer/leukemia (oncologist), chronic pulmonary disease (pulmonologist), coronary artery disease or heart failure (cardiologist), chronic liver disease (hepatologist), chronic renal disease (nephrologist), and diabetes with end-organ damage (endocrinologist).
- Identified (via the patient or the EHR) as the person most involved in care for an eligible patient in the trial
- 18 years of age or older
- English language proficiency
- Physician or advance practice provider caring for older adults within UW Medicine clinics
- 18 years of age or older
- English language proficiency
- (Interviews) Identified as clinician of record for an enrolled patient in the trial and received a Jumpstart guide
Criteria the registry did not label
- PATIENTS
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harborview Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Unknown status |
| UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Unknown status |
| UW Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Unknown status |
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