Clinical trials: Hospice Decision Making
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning With Formerly Homeless Older Adults Residing in Permanent Supportive Housing
The homeless population is aging, with an increasing proportion of individuals over age 50 who experience accelerated aging, high rates of mortality, and a high risk of not having their wishes honored at the end of life.
- Trial name
- ACP-PSH (NCT06239896)
- Testing
- Facilitated Group ACP Session, Facilitated one-on-one ACP visits
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 650 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
A Culturally Sensitive Values-Guided Aid for End of Life Decision-Making
The goal of this research agenda is to improve the quality of end-of-life care by explicitly identifying values that will guide the decision-making process, with a particular emphasis on the role of ethnic, racial and cultural…
- Conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Cirrhosis, Colon Carcinoma
- Trial name
- Aim3 (NCT00122135)
- Testing
- Values Inventory (VI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
End of Life Care, Muslim
Code Status Discussions in Muslim ICU Patients: Insights Into Physician-Family Communication
This observational study aims to explore the real-time experiences, perceptions, and challenges faced by intensive care unit (ICU) physicians during goals-of-care discussions-specifically Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) and…
- Conditions
- End of Life Care, Muslim, Decision Making ,Shared
- Trial name
- FAITH-ICU (NCT07243041)
- Where
- Saudi Arabia
- Volunteers
- 320 people
- Sponsor
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
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
Stage III Ovarian Cancer, Stage IV Ovarian Cancer
Interactive Educational Website for Women With Ovarian Cancer & Caregivers
Ovarian cancer accounts for more deaths than any other gynecologic malignancy. The majority of patients are diagnosed with Stage III-IV disease.
- Conditions
- Stage III Ovarian Cancer, Stage IV Ovarian Cancer, Recurrent Ovarian Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT01626014
- Testing
- Usual Care Educational Website, Prototype System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Hospice Decision Making
Underutilization of Hospice in Older African Americans
Despite the documented benefits of hospice, less than 2 million people utilize hospice services annually. Underuse disparities are extreme across race and ethnicity as White Americans comprise 85% of all hospice enrollees.
- Trial name
- NCT04458090
- Testing
- A decision aid for patients considering Hospice care.
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Dementia
Inpatient Hospice Transitions Checklist
This is an NIH Stage IB single-arm feasibility study will adapt and test the Inpatient Hospice Transitions Checklist (I-HTC), an Epic-embedded intervention supporting hospice eligibility assessment and clinician-surrogate…
- Trial name
- I-HTC (NCT07889830)
- Testing
- I-HTC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- New York University
Chronic Disease
A Community-based Advance Care Planning Programme for Patients With Advanced Disease
Advance care planning has been recommended as an integral part of care for patients with life-limiting disease, but relevant development in Hong Kong is still in its infancy.
- Trial name
- NCT02068651
- Testing
- Advance care planning programme
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 239 people
- Sponsor
- Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong
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
Hospice Care, Decision Aid
Underutilization of Hospice Care in Older Black Adults
This study will sample older Black adults to test their knowledge and opinions of hospice.
- Conditions
- Hospice Care, Decision Aid, Decision-Making, Aging
- Trial name
- NCT06408090
- Testing
- IDECIDE-HOSPICE
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Critical Illness
Multi-component Family Support Tool Intervention (FST)
The National Academy of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health have called for urgent action to improve the care delivered to the nearly 1,000,000 older Americans who die in intensive care units (ICUs) annually or survive…
- Trial name
- FST (NCT05019261)
- Testing
- Multi-component Family Support Intervention
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,039 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh