Fidelity and Feasibility of a Brief Emergency Department Intervention to Empower Adults With Serious Illness to Initiate Advance Care Planning Conversations

Overview

Journal J Pain Symptom Manage

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Critical Care
Pharmacology
Psychiatry

Date 2018 Sep 18

PMID 30223014

Citations 18

Authors

Richard E Leiter

Miryam Yusufov

Mohammad Adrian Hasdianda

Lauren A Fellion

Audrey C Reust

Susan D Block

James A Tulsky

Kei Ouchi

Affiliations

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Abstract

Context: Emergency department (ED) visits provide opportunities to empower patients to discuss advance care planning with their outpatient clinicians, but systematically developed, feasible interventions do not currently exist. Brief negotiated interview (BNI) interventions, which allow ED clinicians to efficiently motivate patients, have potential to meet this need.

Objectives: We developed a BNI ED intervention to empower older adults with life-limiting illness to formulate and communicate medical care goals to their primary outpatient clinicians. This study assessed the fidelity and feasibility of this intervention in a high-volume ED.

Methods: We enrolled adult patients with serious illnesses (advanced cancer, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease on dialysis, predicted survival <12 months) in an urban, tertiary care academic medical center ED. All participants received the BNI intervention. We video-recorded the encounters. Two reviewers assessed the recordings for intervention fidelity based on adherence to the BNI steps (Part I) and communication skills (Part II).

Results: We reviewed 46 video recordings. The mean total adherence score was 21.07/27 (SD 3.68) or 78.04%. The Part I mean adherence score was 12.07/15 (SD 2.07) or 80.47%. The Part II mean adherence score was 9.0/12 (SD 2.51) or 75%. The majority (75.6%) of recordings met the prespecified threshold for high intervention fidelity.

Conclusion: ED clinicians can deliver a BNI intervention to increase advance care planning conversations with high fidelity. Future research is needed to study the intervention's efficacy in a wider patient population.

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