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NCT Number: NCT02612688

Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes

This is a pragmatic cluster-randomized control trial (RCT) of an Advance Care Planning (ACP) Video Program for nursing home (NH) patients ≥ 65 years old who are cared for in 360 NH facilities (intervention arm n=119; control arm n=241) within two NH health care systems: Genesis HealthCare and PruittHealth. The intervention NH facilities will implement the ACP Video Program, while the control NH facilities will follow their usual ACP procedures. The trial will evaluate the effectiveness of the ACP Video Program by comparing hospitalizations, advance directives, and hospice use in the intervention vs. control NHs.

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Conditions

Alzheimer Disease Brain Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Chronic Disease Dementia Disease Attributes Heart Diseases Heart Failure Hyperphagia Lung Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Neurodegenerative Diseases Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Tract Diseases Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms, Digestive Tauopathies

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

PruittHealth, Norcross, Georgia, United States

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About this study

Nursing homes are complex health care systems that serve increasingly sick patients who have advanced comorbid conditions. NHs are often charged with guiding patients through decisions about the direction of their treatment. Patients at NHs commonly get aggressive care that may be inconsistent with their preferences and of little clinical benefit. Identifying effective approaches that NHs can use to better promote goal-directed care and optimize resources is a research, public health, and clinical priority.

Advance care planning is the most consistent modifiable factor associated with better palliative care outcomes. Traditional ACP relies on verbal descriptions of hypothetical health states and treatments. This approach is limited because complex scenarios are difficult to envision, counseling is inconsistent, and verbal explanations are hindered by literacy and language barriers.

To address these shortcomings, the PROVEN project has developed video-assisted ACP decision-support tools that have shown efficacy in small randomized controlled trials. While several large health care systems have begun to adopt the videos, efforts have not rigorously evaluated outcomes-a critical step prior to widespread implementation.

The goal of PROVEN is to conduct a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the ACP Video Program in the NH setting by partnering with 2 large health care systems that operate 456 nursing homes nationwide. This work has the potential to improve the care provided to millions of older Americans in nursing homes and enable future pragmatic trials in this setting.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Facilities are within Genesis HealthCare or PruittHealth health care systems
  • Facilities have facility identifiers that indicate that they are Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in the U.S.
  • Facilities serve both short and long-stay patients
  • Facilities have >50 beds
  • Facilities have an electronic medical records system
  • Facilities had at least 20 admissions and 20 annual Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments (regardless of whether they were discharged alive) in 2013

Exclusion criteria

  • Facilities excluded per corporate leaders in health care system because of recent turnover in NH administrator or Director of Nursing
  • Facilities excluded per corporate leaders in health care system because of recent bad state or federal quality assurance survey (e.g. restriction on admissions, levied large civil monetary penalty, etc.)
  • Facilities excluded per corporate leaders in health care system because of current new initiatives/competing demands

Treatment and study plan

ACP Video Program

Behavioral

The ACP Video Program consists of five videos that address ACP decisions: (1) General Goals of Care, (2) Goals of Care for Advanced Dementia, (3) Hospice, (4) Hospitalization, and (5) ACP for Healthy Patients. NH staff will offer videos to patients at these clinical triggers: (1) Within 7 days of admission or readmission; (2) Every 6 months for long-stay patients; (3) When there is a significant change in clinical status; (4) When a treatment decision arises for which there is a specific video; and (5) Special circumstances when goals of care are being considered (e.g., family visiting).

Primary outcomes

  1. Hospital Transfer Rate in Target Cohort

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Number of hospital transfers (number of transfers/person-days alive) over a 12-month observation period among Medicare fee-for-service long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia or advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease

Secondary outcomes

  1. Hospital Transfer Rate Among Long-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Number of hospital transfers (number of transfers/person-days alive) over a 12-month observation period among Medicare fee-for-service long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease

  2. Hospital Transfer Rate Among Short-stay Residents With Advanced Illness

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Number of hospital transfers (number of transfers/person-days alive) over a 100-day observation period among Medicare fee-for-service short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease

  3. Hospital Transfer Rate Among Short-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Number of hospital transfers (number of transfers/person-days alive) over a 100-day observation period among Medicare fee-for-service short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease

  4. Proportion of Target Cohort With Last Observed Advance Directive Status

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease whose last observed advance directive status during their 12-month observation period was: Full Code, Do Not Resuscitate (NOT Do Not Hospitalize), or Do Not Hospitalize. A resident whose last observed status was both Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Hospitalize is categorized as Do Not Hospitalize only. Analyses will be limited to Genesis HealthCare facilities in which >75% of residents have any advance directive because the remaining Genesis HealthCare and PruittHealth facilities do not have reliable sources for these data.

  5. Proportion of Long-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness With Last Observed Advance Directive Status

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who do have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease whose last observed advance directive status during their 12-month observation period was: Full Code, Do Not Resuscitate (NOT Do Not Hospitalize), or Do Not Hospitalize. A resident whose last observed status was both Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Hospitalize is categorized as Do Not Hospitalize only. Analyses will be limited to Genesis HealthCare facilities in which >75% of residents have any advance directive because the remaining Genesis HealthCare and PruittHealth facilities do not have reliable sources for these data.

  6. Proportion of Short-stay Residents With Advanced Illness With Last Observed Advance Directive Status

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease whose last observed advance directive status during their 100-day observation period was: Full Code, Do Not Resuscitate (NOT Do Not Hospitalize), or Do Not Hospitalize. A resident whose last observed status was both Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Hospitalize is categorized as Do Not Hospitalize only. Analyses will be limited to Genesis HealthCare facilities in which >75% of residents have any advance directive because the remaining Genesis HealthCare and PruittHealth facilities do not have reliable sources for these data.

  7. Proportion of Short-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness With Last Observed Advance Directive Status

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease whose last observed advance directive status during their 100-day observation period was: Full Code, Do Not Resuscitate (NOT Do Not Hospitalize), or Do Not Hospitalize. A resident whose last observed status was both Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Hospitalize is categorized as Do Not Hospitalize only. Analyses will be limited to Genesis HealthCare facilities in which >75% of residents have any advance directive because the remaining Genesis HealthCare and PruittHealth facilities do not have reliable sources for these data.

  8. Proportion of Target Cohort Receiving Any Burdensome Treatment

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who receive any burdensome treatment (new feeding tube insertions, parenteral therapy, intubation, ICU care) during a 12-month observation period

  9. Proportion of Long-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness Receiving Any Burdensome Treatment

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who receive any burdensome treatment (new feeding tube insertions, parenteral therapy, intubation, ICU care) during a 12-month observation period

  10. Proportion of Short-stay Residents With Advanced Illness Receiving Any Burdensome Treatment

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who receive any burdensome treatment (new feeding tube insertions, parenteral therapy, intubation, ICU care) during a 100-day observation period among

  11. Proportion of Short-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness Receiving Any Burdensome Treatment

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who receive any burdensome treatment (new feeding tube insertions, parenteral therapy, intubation, ICU care) during a 100-day observation period

  12. Proportion of Target Cohort With Any Hospice Enrollment

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease with any hospice enrollment during a 12-month observation period

  13. Proportion of Long-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness With Any Hospice Enrollment

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease with any hospice enrollment during a 12-month observation period

  14. Proportion of Short-stay Residents With Advanced Illness With Any Hospice Enrollment

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease with any hospice enrollment during a 100-day observation period

  15. Proportion of Short-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness With Any Hospice Enrollment

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease with any hospice enrollment during a 100-day observation period

  16. Proportion of Target Cohort That Has Medicare ACP Billing Codes

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who have any Medicare ACP billing code during their 12-month observation period

  17. Proportion of Long-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness That Has Medicare ACP Billing Codes

    Time frame: 12-month observation period

    Proportion of long-stay residents (in a NH >=90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who have any Medicare ACP billing code during their 12-month observation period

  18. Proportion of Short-stay Residents With Advanced Illness That Has Medicare ACP Billing Codes

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have EITHER advanced dementia OR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who have any Medicare ACP billing code during their 100-day observation period

  19. Proportion of Short-stay Residents Without Advanced Illness That Has Medicare ACP Billing Codes

    Time frame: 100-day observation period

    Proportion of short-stay residents (in a NH <90 days) who are >=65 years old and who have NEITHER advanced dementia NOR advanced congestive heart failure/chronic obstructive lung disease who have any Medicare ACP billing code during their 100-day observation period

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Brown University

Other

Collaborators

  • Genesis HealthCare
  • Hebrew SeniorLife
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • PruittHealth

Registry information

Official study title

PROVEN: Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes

Acronym: PROVEN

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Nov 24, 2015
Registry last updated
Oct 12, 2020

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