NCT04281784

Using the Electronic Health Record to Identify and Promote Goals-of-Care Communication for Older Patients With Serious Illness

Extracted Fields (from Registry)
Protocol IDNCT04281784
Registration Date2020-02-24
Statuscompleted
SponsorUniversity of Washington
CountryUnited States
Industrynot industry
Blindingblinded
Center Typemulticenter RCT
Scopenational RCT
First Patient In2020-04-23
Last Patient Out2022-09-26
Publicationy
Gender %ALL
Mean Age18 Years -
LLM Classifications (Side-by-Side)
Field CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514
5359ms / 11931 tok
OPENAI
gpt-4o
Thinking: o3
3337ms / 10280 tok
GLM
glm-5.1
6899ms / 10466 tok
Review
rct_type parallel RCT parallel RCT parallel RCT OK
cancer_status non-cancer non-cancer non-cancer OK
non_cancer_spec N/A early palliative care → N/A → N/A
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: early palliative care Requery: N/A — The study includes a mixed population with both cancer (neoplasm metastasis, lung neoplasms) and multiple non-cancer conditions, making it too general/mixed for a specific non-cancer classification. Thinking: N/A — Study includes mixed population with both cancer (neoplasm metastasis, lung neoplasm) and non-cancer conditions
N/A dementia → dementia → N/A
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: dementia Requery: dementia — The study emphasizes patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) as a focus of the intervention. Thinking: N/A — The trial targets a mixed serious-illness population that includes both cancer and multiple non-cancer conditions, so no single non-cancer category applies.
early palliative care
setting_patient inpatient inpatient inpatient OK
setting_place hospital hospital hospital OK
feasibility fully powered RCT fully powered RCT fully powered RCT OK
intervention_pharmacologic no no no OK
intervention_chemo_immuno_radio no no no OK
intervention_complementary no no no OK
intervention_device no no no OK
intervention_psychological no no no OK
intervention_complex no no no OK
intervention_acp yes yes yes OK
intervention_music no no no OK
intervention_screening no no no OK
intervention_palliative yes yes yes OK
intervention_education no no yes
intervention_digital yes yes yes OK
intervention_other no no no OK
outcome_symptom no no no OK
outcome_qol no no no OK
outcome_dignity no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — This trial focuses on goals-of-care communication and healthcare utilization outcomes rather than measuring dignity, meaning in life, or existential/spiritual well-being.
no yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The study focuses on improving quality of palliative care through goals-of-care discussions without addressing existential or spiritual themes.
no OK
outcome_cost yes yes yes OK
outcome_other yes yes yes OK
pharmacologic_sub N/A N/A N/A OK
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