Patient-mediated interventions significantly increased the completion of advance care planning documents by clinicians for patients with heart failure (OR 5.23).
Meta-Analysis (n=3,709)
Do clinician-targeted interventions improve clinician engagement with advance care planning in heart failure?
Clinician-targeted interventions, specifically patient-mediated interventions, reminder systems, and educational meetings, significantly improve the implementation of advance care planning in heart failure.
Estimación del efecto: OR 5.23 (95% CI 2.36 - 11.61)
valor p: p=<0.0001
OBJECTIVE: Advance care planning (ACP) is widely advocated to contribute to better outcomes for patients suffering from heart failure. But clinicians appear hesitant to engage with ACP. Our aim was to identify interventions with the greatest potential to engage clinicians with ACP in heart failure. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Database of Systematic Reviews, Embase, ERIC, Ovid MEDLINE, Science Citation Index and PsycINFO for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) from inception to January 2018. Three reviewers independently extracted data, assessed risk of bias (Cochrane risk of bias tool), the quality of evidence (GRADE) and intervention synergy according to Template for Intervention Description and Replication. ORs were calculated for pooled effects. RESULTS: Of 14 175 articles screened, we assessed the full text of 131 studies. 13 RCTs including 3709 participants met all of the inclusion criteria. The intervention categories of patient-mediated interventions (OR 5.23; 95% CI 2.36 to 11.61), reminder systems (OR 3.65; 95% CI 1.47 to 9.04) and educational meetings (OR 2.35; 95% CI 1.29 to 4.26) demonstrated a favourable effect to engage clinicians with the completion of ACP. CONCLUSION: The review provides evidence from 13 published RCTs and suggests that interventions that involve patients to change clinical practice, reminder systems and educational meetings have the greatest effect in improving the implementation of ACP in heart failure.
Schichtel et al. (Wed,) conducted a meta-analysis in Heart failure (n=3,709). Patient-mediated interventions vs. Standard professional development was evaluated on Completion of an advance care planning (ACP) document (OR 5.23, 95% CI 2.36 - 11.61, p=<0.0001). Patient-mediated interventions significantly increased the completion of advance care planning documents by clinicians for patients with heart failure (OR 5.23).