A follow-up study to evaluate the advance care planning program ?Beizeiten Begleiten? (care in good time) in one region?s nursing homes

Controlled, cross-sectional, follow-up study to evaluate the degree of implementation of the advance care planning program ?Beizeiten Begleiten? (care in good time) in one region?s nursing homes - RESPEKT

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN91308077

Enrollment

286

Registered

2012-01-18

Start date

2011-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-01-13

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Conditions

Advance Care Planning (advance directives) Not Applicable

Interventions

The intervention was to implement an advance care planning program in the nursing homes of the intervention region. Follow up to RESPEKT study.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: In order to examine the ACP program?s effect comprehensively, we studied the prevalence and properties of advance directives in two samples of the enrolled nursing homes: Sample 1: Residents currently living in the enrolled nursing homes at the date of data collection (adults of either sex) Sample 2: Random sample of residents deceased between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2010 (adults of either sex)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Residents who moved in during the last three months before data collection

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Availability of advance directives (in the resident's charts) that are: 1. Valid (defined by a physician's or specifically qualified non-physician's signature) 2. Emergency-relevant (defined by clearly deciding the question of CPR in case of cardiac arrest on one page, possibly on a separate form, also validated by a physician's or qualified non-physician's signature)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Valid (defined by a physician's or specifically qualified non-physician's signature) - validity defined by the signature of ANY third person 2. Emergency-relevant (defined by clearly deciding the question of CPR in case of cardiac arrest on one page, possibly on a separate form, also validated by a physician's or qualified non-physician's signature) - only residents who moved in after 1 July 2010 3. Prevalence of just an emergency-relevant document with physician's signature 4. Designation of a proxy decision maker (durable power of attorney) 5. Number of months since advance directive was last updated	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Valid (defined by a physician's or specifically qualified non-physician's signature) - validity defined by the signature of ANY third person 2. Emergency-relevant (defined by clearly deciding the question of CPR in case of cardiac arrest on one page, possibly on a separate form, also validated by a physician's or qualified non-physician's signature) - only residents who moved in after 1 July 2010 3. Prevalence of just an emergency-relevant document with physician's signature 4. Designation of a proxy decision maker (durable power of attorney) 5. Number of months since advance directive was last updated

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Countries

Germany

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026