Clinical trials: Palliative Care, Health Services
Palliative Care
The PROAKTIV Study
The overall objective of this study is to identify whether the systematic anticipation of highly structured specialized palliative home care into primary care influences the quality of care and care utilization.
- Trial name
- NCT04673760
- Testing
- Specialized palliative home care
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 149 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Breast Cancer
Tumour Registry Breast Cancer
The registry aims to collect and analyse information on the antineoplastic treatment of breast cancer in daily routine practice of office-based and clinic-based medical oncologists in Germany.
- Trial name
- TMK (NCT01351584)
- Volunteers
- 4,500 people
- Sponsor
- iOMEDICO AG
Cancer
Pilot Study of the SPaRK (Supportive and Palliative Care Review Kit) Model of Care for Advanced Cancer Patients Who Have an Unplanned Admission to Singapore General Hospital
Advanced cancer patients have a poor quality of life and a high rate of unplanned hospital admissions. Palliative care has been shown to improve patient outcomes such as quality of life and symptom burden.
- Trial name
- SPaRK (NCT02559336)
- Testing
- Integrated palliative oncology care
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 865 people
- Sponsor
- National Cancer Centre, Singapore
Ovarian Cancer, Endometrial Cancer
Registry Platform Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer
The purpose of the project is to set up a national, prospective, longitudinal, multicenter cohort study, a tumor registry platform, to document uniform data on characteristics, molecular diagnostics, treatment and course of…
- Conditions
- Ovarian Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Ovary Neoplasm, Endometrial Neoplasms
- Trial name
- SMARAGD (NCT05129969)
- Testing
- Physician's choice according to patient's needs.
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 1,975 people
- Sponsor
- iOMEDICO AG
Palliative Care, Health Services
Point Prevalence Survey of Palliative Care Needs in Hospitals and Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
The goal of this observational, point-prevalence study is to assess the burden of palliative care needs among adults hospitalised in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics wards, and among residents of long-term care facilities, on the…
- Trial name
- PCD (NCT07313748)
- Where
- 2 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Palliative Care, Health Services, Palliative Care
Integrating Rhythmical Massage in Palliative Care
People receiving palliative and end-of-life care may experience pain, fatigue, sleep difficulties, anxiety, and other symptoms that affect their comfort and quality of life.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Health Services, Palliative Care, Massage Intervention
- Trial name
- NCT07904611
- Testing
- Rhythmic Massage
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Monash University Malaysia
Life-limiting Serious Illness
Promoting Dignity, Meaningfulness and Mental Well-Being
Feasibility study to test the feasibility and acceptability of a designed personalized modular Intervention consisting of three modules, including Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Therapy, Dignity Therapy (DT), and a…
- Trial name
- NCT03744442
- Testing
- Dignity Therapy (DT) module, CALM Therapy module, Mindfulness-based interventions module
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Palliative Care Referral, Advanced Cancer
Electronic Patient Reporting of Symptoms and Unmet Needs to Connect Patients With Advanced Cancer to Palliative Care Services
This study is testing whether electronic surveys can help patients with advanced cancer report their symptoms and care needs so their doctors can connect them to palliative/supportive care services sooner.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care Referral, Advanced Cancer, Palliative Care, Health Services, Metastatic Cancer (Different Solid Tumour Types)
- Trial name
- PRO-CONNECT (NCT07195513)
- Testing
- ePRO-Directed Referral and Navigation to Palliative/Supportive Care, ePRO Symptom Monitoring with Usual Palliative Care Referral
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Palliative Care
Use of Online Communications to Support Patients and Their Families in the Hospice Unit
The increasing awareness of the importance of palliative care has led, in Israel, to the 2005 Law for the Rights of Persons with Terminal Illness. Still, problems of accessibility to palliative care remain unresolved.
- Trial name
- NCT02483390
- Testing
- psychosocial intervention
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Pesach Shvartzman
Depression in Adolescence
Evaluation of MoodRing on Improving the Quality of Depression Management in Adolescents
The MoodRing intervention is a mobile application for adolescents, parents, and an accompanying web-based clinician portal which enables adolescents to monitor their mood through the use of passively collected smartphone data.
- Trial name
- TECH-E (NCT05376358)
- Testing
- MoodRing App, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 73 people
- Sponsor
- Ana Radovic
Incurable Pathologies
Perceptions of Health Professionals Confronted With Palliative Situations
Hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients, are faced with ever more complex situations, particularly in the case of severe, progressive, and incurable pathologies.
- Trial name
- NCT03021967
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Palliative Care, Palliative Care, Health Services
MultidISciplinary Care paThway tailoRed on frAilty in Cancer Patients Referred to Outpatient paLliative Care
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a structured, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)-tailored palliative care pathway improves clinical outcomes and care experience in adults with advanced cancer referred…
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Palliative Care, Health Services, Patient Reported Outcome (PRO), Patient Reported Outcome Measurements
- Trial name
- MISTRAL (NCT07469761)
- Testing
- Structured Palliative Care, Classical Palliative Care
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Augusto Caraceni
Palliative Care, Nurse
Strengthening Palliative Care in Primary Health Care Through Knowledge Enhancement
The implementation of palliative care has been started in Indonesia since 2007. This was declared by Ministry of health regulation (SK Menkes no 812/Menkes/SK/2007).
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Nurse, Community Health Services
- Trial name
- SPARK (NCT04862169)
- Testing
- educational intervention (SPARK), electronic version of the modules
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gadjah Mada University
Palliative Care, Heart Failure
Advanced Heart Care at Home
End-of-life (EOL) care for heart failure (HF) patients includes high healthcare utilization and costs, in part due to the lack of integration of optimal HF management and home-based palliative care.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Heart Failure, Health Care Utilization, Quality Improvement
- Trial name
- AHCAH (NCT03724695)
- Testing
- Clinician nudge or opt out approach for AHCAH liaison visit
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 709 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Life-limiting Illness, Breast Cancer
Therapeutic Support to Strengthen Dignity, Mental Well-being and Quality of Life in Acute Palliative Care Patients.
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the benefit of a newly designed personalized therapeutic intervention compared to the standard specialized palliative care service at the swiss acute palliative hospital care.The main…
- Conditions
- Life-limiting Illness, Breast Cancer, Glioblastoma, Prostate Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT06549075
- Testing
- Therapeutic support, Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Cancer, Advanced Cancer
Symptom Management, Quality of Life and Satisfaction With Care for Advanced Stage Cancers - Control Arm
Symptom Management, Quality of Life and Satisfaction with Care for Advanced Stage Cancers is the first part of a two part study (The Lancaster Cancer Care Model (LCCM) - Non-Concurrent Control Study).
- Trial name
- LCCM-Control (NCT02261051)
- Testing
- Standard of care
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- Lancaster General Hospital
Palliative Care, Nursing Homes
Interventional Research With Mixed Methods on an Early Integrated Palliative Approach in Nursing Home
The national context of the end of life of elderly people living in Nursing Home (NH) is concerning. A quarter of NH residents die each year representing a quarter of annual deaths in France of all ages.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Nursing Homes, Aged
- Trial name
- NCT04708002
- Testing
- early integrated palliative approach model
- Where
- 3 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 3,500 people
- Sponsor
- Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier
Palliative Care, End of Life Care
Patient Journey in Palliative Care Within the NOVO Hospital Group.
This retrospective descriptive study aims to describe the sociodemographic, clinical, and organizational characteristics of patients identified as receiving palliative care who died in 2024 within the NOVO Hospital network.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, End of Life Care, Terminal Care
- Trial name
- NOVOPAL (NCT07505706)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 286 people
- Sponsor
- Hôpital NOVO
Home Care, Hospital-Based, Palliative Care
Perceptions of Key Domains of Home-Based Palliative Care Among Healthcare Professionals (MULTIPAL)
This observational cross-sectional study evaluates and compares healthcare professionals' perceptions of key domains of home-based palliative care.
- Conditions
- Home Care, Hospital-Based, Palliative Care, Health Services Research, Decision Making
- Trial name
- MULTIPAL (NCT07554209)
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 580 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria La Fe
Health Services Research
Effectiveness of the Supportive and Palliative Care Review Kit (SPARK) for Cancer Patients in the Acute Hospital
Introduction There is a rising need for palliative care services in Singapore due to a rapidly ageing population and an increasing incidence of cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT03330509
- Testing
- SPARK intervention
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 7,514 people
- Sponsor
- National Cancer Centre, Singapore