Clinical trials: End of Life
Family, End of Life
Web-based Support for Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer
For family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer, preparedness for caregiving is crucial for maintaining health and quality of life both during care and after the death of the patient.
- Conditions
- Family, End of Life, Cancer Metastatic, Chronic Illness
- Trial name
- NCT05785494
- Testing
- Narstaende.se
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 204 people
- Sponsor
- Ersta Sköndal University College
Critical Illness, End of Life
Embedded Palliative Care in the MICU
The goal of this study is to investigate whether embedding a hospice and palliative care practitioner within a medical intensive care unit will improve patient outcomes and healthcare usage.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, End of Life, Quality of Life
- Trial name
- NCT06574672
- Testing
- Embedded Hospice and Palliative Care Practitioner, Embedded Hospice and Palliative Care Practitioner (Group Effect), None (Historical)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,600 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
End of Life, Cancer
Lay Health Worker Expanded Intervention in Community Oncology Practices
Undertreated patient symptoms and resulting acute care use require approaches that improve symptom-burden. Previously a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention was developed for patients with cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT04463992
- Testing
- Program participants, Usual Care
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 416 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Interprofessional Relations, End-of-life Situations
Impact of Interprofessional Training and Co-ordination on Early Identification and Proactive Approach to End-of-life Situations in the Context of Primary Care
More than 300,000 people die each year in France from a disease that may require palliative care. Nevertheless, only a small proportion of these patients are able to access this care, in particular because of a too late…
- Trial name
- SCOP3 quali (NCT03171779)
- Testing
- Patients approaching the end of their lives
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
End of Life Care, Advanced Cancer
Empathetic Communication Facilitation Program for Early Initiation of End-of-life Discussions
Background: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: palliative care recommends discussing advance care planning (ACP) when patients' estimated life expectancy is reduced from a year to…
- Conditions
- End of Life Care, Advanced Cancer, Recurrent Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT05045040
- Testing
- Mobile-based empathetic communication support program to promote ACP discussion
- Where
- Japan
- Volunteers
- 264 people
- Sponsor
- Yosuke Uchitomi
End-of-life Care
Practice Analysis of Care, Paraclinical Exams and Treatments Received by Geriatric Patients Both During the Last Week and the Last 24 Hours of Their Lives.
End-of-life care is a core topic for geriatricians. One of the key aspects of end-of-life management is deciding when to discontinue active care measures (for example blood pressure monitoring, blood tests and X-rays) in favor of…
- Trial name
- NCT06026241
- Testing
- Collecting data from the medical record
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
COVID-19 Pandemic, End-of-life
The Practice of Providing Palliative Care in the Situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The practice of providing palliative care in the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the perspective of physicians and nurses - survey study (PEOpLe-C19 study)
- Trial name
- PEOpLeC19-EN (NCT05089032)
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 215 people
- Sponsor
- Masaryk University
End of Life Care, Liver Cirrhosis
Palliative Care for Patients With Liver Cirrhosis
Background: Patients with liver cirrhosis rarely receive palliative care although the Danish Health Authorities and WHO recommend it.
- Conditions
- End of Life Care, Liver Cirrhosis, Nurse-Patient Relations, Quality of Life
- Trial name
- LiverCare (NCT05431946)
- Testing
- Advance Care Planning and the consequent actions
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Esbjerg Hospital - University Hospital of Southern Denmark
End of Life, Cancer
Enhancing Community Capacity to Improve Cancer Care Delivery
Undertreated patient symptoms and resulting acute care use require approaches that improve symptom-burden. Previously a a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention was developed for patients with advanced cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT04107116
- Testing
- Program participants, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 832 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Question Prompt List, Caregivers
The Effectiveness of Using a Palliative Care QPL on the Selfefficacy and Preparedness of Indonesian Homecare Workers
Foreign studies on caregivers' use of QPL in end-of-life care, decision-making, and satisfaction are mostly conducted with family members who share the same language.
- Conditions
- Question Prompt List, Caregivers, End-of-life Care
- Trial name
- NCT06847828
- Testing
- QPL
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Den,Yu-Yun
End-of-life Care, Palliative Care
Outcomes of Early Palliative Care Intervention for High-Risk Patients in the Intensive Care Unit-A Pilot Study
The investigators propose to conduct a feasibility study of identifying high-risk ICU patients using previously validated integrated prediction model and employing early palliative care intervention.
- Conditions
- End-of-life Care, Palliative Care, Intensive Care Unit
- Trial name
- NCT04487054
- Testing
- Pro-active palliative care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 104 people
- Sponsor
- West Virginia University
End of Life, Pain
Virtual Reality at End-of-life
The purpose of this research is to determine the effect that repeated, personalized virtual reality experiences have on symptom severity, comparing self-reported symptom severity both pre and post each session, and overtime…
- Conditions
- End of Life, Pain, Nausea, Fatigue
- Trial name
- NCT06149429
- Testing
- Personalized virtual reality experience
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
End-of-life Decision-making
End-of-life Decision-making Among Young Patients With Advanced Cancer: a Grounded Theory Approach
The purpose of this qualitative research is to use grounded theory to explore and describe the thoughts of young advanced cancer patients regarding end-of-life care and how these thoughts influence the related decision-making…
- Trial name
- NCT06551831
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
End-of-Life, Physical Suffering
Virtual Reality Therapy to Improve Physical and Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life for End-of-life Patients on a Palliative Care Unit
People with advanced and life-threatening illnesses experience challenges across multiple domains of function including physical, psychological, social, and spiritual.
- Conditions
- End-of-Life, Physical Suffering, Psychological Distress
- Trial name
- NCT04966260
- Testing
- Standardized Virtual Reality, Control, Personalized Virtual Reality
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Baycrest
End of Life
Comfort and Quality of Life of Patients at the End of Life
A Research to Evaluate the Effect of Nursing Care Practices Based on Kolcaba's Comfort Theory on the Comfort Levels and Quality of Life of End-of-Life Patients.
- Trial name
- NCT06515847
- Testing
- End of Life Nursing Care Plan
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fenerbahce University
End of Life Care, Critical Illness
Palliative Care Protocol for Adult Patients Hospitalized in Critical Care Units.
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the effectiveness of a palliative care protocol in improving the quality of care of adult patients at high risk of dying hospitalized in the critical care unit.
- Conditions
- End of Life Care, Critical Illness, Palliative Care
- Trial name
- NCT06483958
- Testing
- palliative care protocol
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 248 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chile
Kidney Failure, End of Life
Feasibility Testing a shareD dEciSIon Making Intervention for People With Kidney failuRE, Their Relatives, and the Health Professionals in Kidney Services: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Study Protocol
The aim of this research is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a shared decision making intervention and a patient decision aid to support patients with kidney failure, relatives, and health professionals in planning…
- Trial name
- DESIRE (NCT05842772)
- Testing
- Shared decision making intervention for patients with kidney failure when planning end-of-life care
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
End of Life, Interdisciplinary Communication
Coaching Doctors in Ethical Decision-making (CODE)
Over the last few decades the fast technical and medical progress poses a significant challenge to doctors, who are asked to find the right balance between life-prolonging and palliative care.
- Conditions
- End of Life, Interdisciplinary Communication, Leadership
- Trial name
- CODE (NCT05167019)
- Testing
- CODE intervention, Usual care
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 125 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Ghent
Communication, End of Life
Improving Breaking Bad News in Pediatrics by Simulated Communication
Breaking bad news, especially a death notice, is an essential part of the medical profes-sional communication. Being inadequately trained in those skills this may result in un-pleasant psychosocial consequences for everyone…
- Conditions
- Communication, End of Life, Pediatric ALL
- Trial name
- SimCom (NCT06376188)
- Testing
- communication training
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Cancer, End-of-Life
Coaches Activating Reaching and Engaging Patients
The purpose of the Team Based Advance Care Planning CAREPLAN program is to understand if a trained lay navigator who engages with patients with advanced stages of cancer can help patients in advance care planning, improve patient…
- Trial name
- CAREPlan (NCT03856463)
- Testing
- Lay Navigator Intervention, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University