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Intervention to Improve Care at Life's End

NCT00234286 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2015-04-27

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Summary

The BEACON trial (Best Practices for End-of-Life Care for Our Nations' Veterans) was a six-site implementation study to evaluate a multi-component, education-based intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided in VA Medical Centers.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comfort care education intervention

Comfort care education intervention, consisting of intensive, on-site staff training together with an electronic order set for palliative care and educational materials

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kathryn L Burgio, PhD MA BA · Birmingham, Alabama VA Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-03-31
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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