End of Life Clinical Trial
Official title:
Personalized End of Life Care in Safety-Net Hospitals: Implementation of the 3 Wishes Project
Dignified and compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care is a cornerstone of high-quality, patient-centered care, but in safety-net hospitals EOL care is often overlooked, considered too late, or not at all. By eliciting and implementing final wishes for dying patients, the 3 Wishes Project (3WP) has demonstrated, in tertiary academic centers, that acts of compassion can improve the EOL experience and help families cope with loss. The investigators propose to implement the 3WP in safety-net hospitals where there are less resources and more diverse, disadvantaged patient populations, and hypothesize that there will be similar positive effects on the EOL experience for patients, families, and clinicians.
Compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care is foundational to medicine, but providing patients and families in safety-net hospitals (SNHs) with the sense that they are physically and emotionally supported during a patient's terminal hospitalization can be challenging. SNHs are public hospitals that primarily provide services to low-income and uninsured patients on a minimal budget. Although high quality EOL care is an important unmet need in SNHs, its provision is fraught with barriers and challenges. Language barriers, low health literacy, and cultural differences can make it difficult for families in SNHs to perceive empathy and support during the EOL. Deaths in the intensive care unit (ICU) for underserved families can be traumatic, and families of patients who die in the ICU often suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Palliative care interventions are needed, but implementation is often resource-prohibitive. The 3 Wishes Project (3WP) is a palliative care intervention that aims to achieve a dignified and compassionate EOL experience by empowering the clinical team to elicit and fulfill small wishes for critically ill patients who are dying in the ICU. Although the 3WP has been shown to improve a family's experience of their loved one's EOL care, ease bereavement, and enhance clinician work satisfaction in academic centers, it has not been implemented and evaluated in low-resource hospitals. The investigators believe that this patient-centered and clinician-partnered initiative can improve the EOL experience in SNHs, but that it must be adapted to the contextual differences and needs of low-resource hospitals. Investigators propose to obtain and use stakeholder input to customize a multi-component 3WP Toolkit that will facilitate 3WP implementation in SNHs. Using the tailored Toolkit, the investigators will implement and evaluate the 3WP in the three SNHs of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. The investigators will conduct a pragmatic type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study to evaluate the quality of EOL ICU care, bereaved families' psychological symptoms, and clinician burnout as compared to usual care. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework will be used to guide a mixed-methods evaluation of the 3WP implementation in SNHs. ;
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