Clinical trials: End of Life Communication
Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest
End-of-life Practices in 2019 vs. 2014
In 2014, the authors conducted a survey of key opinion leaders on ethical resuscitation practices in 31 European Countries. The authors administered a comprehensive questionnaire to 1-2 "experts" from each country…
- Conditions
- Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest, Ethics, Narrative
- Trial name
- NCT04078815
- Where
- 2 sites in Belgium, Greece
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
End-stage Renal Disease
Improving Patient-clinician Communication About End-of-life Care
The specific aims are: 1. to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of PC-ACP among African American patients with End-stage Renal Disease and their surrogates and 2.
- Trial name
- NCT00374010
- Testing
- Patient-Centered Advance Care Planning
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
End of Life, Communication
Informational Meetings for Planning and Coordinating Treatment
This prospective cluster-randomized trial examines the efficacy of a novel communication intervention delivered by trained physician and nurse dyads to parents of children with cancer within the clinicians' practice, to foster…
- Conditions
- End of Life, Communication, Cancer Metastatic
- Trial name
- IMPACT (NCT04330833)
- Testing
- Novel Communication Intervention, Enhanced Usual Care Parent Education
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 111 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Depression, Depressive Symptoms
ICU Family Communication Study
The purpose of this study is to improve care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) by focusing on communication with family members of patients who are too sick to make decisions about their own care while they are in the ICU.
- Conditions
- Depression, Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Trial name
- NCT00720200
- Testing
- Facilitator-Based intervention, Usual Care
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 593 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
HIV
Longitudinal Pediatric Palliative Care: Quality of Life & Spiritual Struggle
Our goal is to advance palliative care to adolescents and their families. We hope our study will decrease suffering (psychological, spiritual, physical) and increase quality of life (QOL).
- Trial name
- FACE (NCT01289444)
- Testing
- FAmily CEntered (FACE) ACP, Healthy Living Control
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Advance Care Planning
Culturally-Adapting a Communication Intervention to Improve Palliative Care Literacy on Two Native American Reservations
This study will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived effectiveness of the culturally-adapted COMFORT Communication Curriculum in two Native American reservation communities.
- Trial name
- NCT03569150
- Testing
- Cultural adaptation/implementation COMFORT CC
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- South Dakota State University
Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Child Rearing
Comparing Children's Books to Brochures for Safe Sleep and Infant Reading Education During Prenatal Care
The aim of this randomized trial is to compare a specially designed children's book to brochures for safe sleep education via clinical providers at a third trimester prenatal obstetric visit.
- Conditions
- Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Child Rearing, Literacy
- Trial name
- NCT04031235
- Testing
- Sleep Baby, Safe and Snug, Read Baby, Every Day
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
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
Advanced Cancer, Cancer
Better Real-time Information on Documentation of Goals of Care for Engagement in Serious Illness Communication
The goal of this study is to test the accuracy of Large Language Model-generated serious illness communication (SIC) summaries, the feasibility of delivering the SIC summaries, and to collect perspectives on the SIC summaries…
- Conditions
- Advanced Cancer, Cancer, End of Life
- Trial name
- BRIDGE-SIC (NCT07147023)
- Testing
- LLM SIC Summary Email
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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
Intervention Compliance, Usability
CSDM: A Trial to Improve Communication and Shared Decision Making Using a Web-Based Tool
The goal is to develop a pragmatic, scalable intervention to overcome problems with surrogate decision making in ICUs. The aim is to conduct a pilot study among surrogates and clinicians of 50 incapacitated patients at high risk…
- Conditions
- Intervention Compliance, Usability, Acceptability
- Trial name
- CSDM Pilot (NCT02955563)
- Testing
- CSDM Web-Based Tool Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 52 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Palliative Care, Kidney Failure, Chronic
A Communication Tool to Assist Older Adults Facing Dialysis Choices
The purpose of this study is to test the effect of the "Best Case/Worse Case" (BC/WC) communication tool on receipt of palliative care and intensity of treatment at the end of life, quality of life, and quality of communication…
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Decision Making, Decision Support Techniques
- Trial name
- NCT04466865
- Testing
- Best Case/Worst Case communication tool training
- Where
- 11 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 407 people
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anxiety, Depression
Improving Patient and Family Centered Care in Advanced Critical Illness
One in five deaths in the U.S. occurs in or shortly after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU), typically following decisions made by surrogate decision makers to forego life prolonging treatment.
- Trial name
- PARTNER (NCT01844492)
- Testing
- The PARTNER Intervention, ICU Usual Care Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,420 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Family of Dying Patient in the ICU
A Communication Strategy for Families of Patients Dying in the ICU
Decisions to limit life sustaining treatments are made for most patients dying in the ICU, usually with input from the family. The well-being of the family may be jeopardized by involvement in the decision-making process and…
- Trial name
- NCT00331877
- Testing
- family conference with bereavement information leaflet
- Volunteers
- 136 people
- Sponsor
- Famirea Study Group
Critical Illness, Chronic Disease
Improving Communication About Serious Illness
The purpose of this study is to improve care delivered to patients with serious illness by enhancing communication among patients, families, and clinicians in the outpatient setting.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Chronic Disease, Terminal Care, Palliative Care
- Trial name
- ICSI (NCT01933789)
- Testing
- Communication Feedback Form for Patients with Serious Illness
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 817 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
Project Talk Trial: Engaging Underserved Communities in End-of-life Conversations
Compared to the general population, individuals from underserved communities are more likely to receive low quality end-of-life care and unwanted, costly and burdensome treatments due in part to a lack of advance care planning…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Terminal Illness, Chronic Illness
- Trial name
- NCT04612738
- Testing
- Hello (serious game), The Conversation Project (CP) Starter Kit, Table Topics (general conversation game)
- Where
- 79 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
End-Of-Life
A Culturally Specific End-of-life Communication Skills Training
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally specific end-of-life communication skills training (CST) among Chinese oncology nurses.
- Trial name
- NCT05888480
- Testing
- The end-of-life communication skills training, Routine training activity
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 148 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Pregnancy, Maternal Health
Wired Mothers - Use of Mobile Phones to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health in Zanzibar
Reducing maternal and newborn mortality remains a global challenge. Because obstetric complications cannot be predicted, skilled attendance at the time of delivery and access to emergency obstetric care remain the most effective…
- Conditions
- Pregnancy, Maternal Health, Newborn Death, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT01821222
- Testing
- Wired mothers
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 2,550 people
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen
End of Life Care, Cancer
Serious Illness Communication Project
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of implementing a "Serious Illness Conversation Guide" to guide patient/family-clinician discussions and planning about end-of-life care decisions.
- Trial name
- NCT01786811
- Testing
- Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 994 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Communication, Advance Directives
Choice of Diction's Effect
The purpose of the research is to determine how the language used when discussing preferences about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) affects decisions regarding this (code status)
- Conditions
- Communication, Advance Directives, Decision Making, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Trial name
- CODE (NCT04896411)
- Testing
- Alternative phrasing for no code, Standard of care for no code
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey