Clinical trials: Terminal Care
Clinical Decision-Making
Mixed Methods Study Web-based Life Support Decision Aid
Patients and families want to be involved in healthcare decisions. When the decision-making process does not engage older patients and their families, the care provided does not match patient preferences or meet their needs.
- Trial name
- eLSDA (NCT03271658)
- Testing
- Web based life support patient decision aid, Decision coaching
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Saskatchewan
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
Aging Problems
E-training of Inmate Peer Caregivers for Enhancing Geriatric and End-of-life Care in Prisons
The mission of corrections is to provide care, custody, and control for incarcerated individuals. United State prisons are required by constitutional law to provide adequate care for growing numbers of older inmates who will…
- Trial name
- P2P (NCT03323008)
- Testing
- Prototype
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Klein Buendel, Inc.
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
Colonic Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms
End-of-Life Care for African Americans
Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care.
- Conditions
- Colonic Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasms
- Trial name
- NCT02320123
- Testing
- Educational DVD
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Advance Care Planning
Culturally Tailoring an Advance Care Planning Intervention for American Indians
This project has three specific aims: (1) culturally tailor the content of the Make Your Wishes about You (MY WAY) ACP curriculum and guide for one American Indian tribe; (2) assess the feasibility of the culturally-tailored MY…
- Trial name
- NCT05304117
- Testing
- Advance Care Planning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 155 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Western Carolina University
Childhood Hematopoietic and Lymphatic System Neoplasm, Childhood Malignant Solid Neoplasm
Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children With Cancer
This study examines the role of access to care, patient/family interactions with the healthcare system, and stress in explaining variations in quality of end-of-life care.
- Trial name
- NCT07412002
- Testing
- Non-Interventional Study
- Where
- 28 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,425 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Oncology Group
Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), Death Anxiety
Die-logue Program for Community Dwelling Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether the Die-logue program can improve attitudes toward death, coping with death, and readiness for advance care planning (ACP) among community-dwelling middle-aged adults aged…
- Conditions
- Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), Death Anxiety, End of Life Care, Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Trial name
- NCT07525492
- Testing
- Death Conversation, Online ACP Education
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 148 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Singapore
Liver Transplant; Complications, Cirrhosis
Technology Enabled Strategies to Promote Treatment Adherence in Liver Transplant
Liver transplantation is increasingly performed for older adults with multiple comorbidities. Medication adherence is key to maintaining proper function of the transplanted liver and optimize health; however, adhering to…
- Conditions
- Liver Transplant; Complications, Cirrhosis, End Stage Liver DIsease, Medication Adherence
- Trial name
- TEST (NCT05260268)
- Testing
- TEST Intervention
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 361 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
HIV Infections
Family Centered Advanced Care Planning for Adolescents With HIV/AIDS and Their Families
This study will examine the efficacy of Family Centered Advance Care Planning in enhancing quality of life, integrating effective end-of-life care, and preventing depression and anxiety among HIV infected adolescents and their…
- Trial name
- NCT00723476
- Testing
- Family Centered Advanced Care Planning (FCACP) sessions, Health education control sessions
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Death Anxiety, Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit)
Platform for End-of-life Awareness, Conversations, and Education (PEACE) Among Registered Nurses
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether the PEACE program can improve early career registered nurses' registered nurses' attitudes towards caring for palliative patients, ability to cope with patients' death, and…
- Conditions
- Death Anxiety, Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), End of Life Care, Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Trial name
- NCT07774468
- Testing
- Death Conversation, Online ACP Education
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Singapore
Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Video-Based Versus Bedside eFAST Training in Final-Year Medical Students
This study compared two methods of teaching the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) examination to final-year medical students.
- Conditions
- Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), eFast
- Trial name
- NCT07790497
- Testing
- Standardized Video-Based eFAST Training, Instructor-Led Bedside eFAST Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gorkem Alper Solakoglu
End Stage Disease
Comparison Between the Assessment of Anxious and Depressive Symptomology
In palliative care, anxiety and depression in advanced cancer are under evaluated, under diagnosed and therefore under treated. 5 to 30% of patients present anxious and depressive disorders. Physical symptoms are easy to assess.
- Trial name
- EDAPAL (NCT04148924)
- Testing
- Questionnaire, Medical staff questionnaire
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Terminal Illness, Critical Illness
Targeting Bias to Reduce Disparities in End of Life Care
This study aims to determine the ways in which clinician implicit racial biases affect clinician communication with family members of patients near the end of life and to test a novel physician training intervention to reduce the…
- Trial name
- BRiDgE-Sim (NCT05165888)
- Testing
- Communication and Bias Mitigation Training, Communication skills training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center
Older Patients Dying in Acute Geriatric Hospital Wards
The Effectiveness of the Care Programme for the Last Days of Life
BACKGROUND Demographic trends coupled with a rise in chronic diseases mean that the population of patients requiring palliative and end-of-life care is ageing.
- Trial name
- PLaDays (NCT01890239)
- Testing
- Care Programme for the Last Days of Life
- Where
- 9 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- End-of-Life Research Group
Neonatal Palliative Care, Educational Intervention for NICU Nursing Performance
Effect of an Educational Program on Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses' Performance Regarding Neonatal Palliative Care in Egypt.
This quasi-experimental study aims to evaluate the effect of an educational program on neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses' performance regarding neonatal palliative care.
- Trial name
- NCT07902557
- Testing
- Neonatal Palliative Care Educational Program
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Asmaa Rashad