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Emergency Department-Based Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients

NCT01358110 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 136

Last updated 2015-06-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to: 1) identify the palliative care needs of Emergency Department patients with advanced cancer, and determine if these needs can be rapidly assessed in the ED; 2) determine whether early palliative care consultation improves survival, quality of life and other burdensome symptoms and decreases utilization as compared to usual care.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Early palliative care consultation

Patients will have symptoms assessed, have goals of care discussion with family and team present, and surrogate designated, as well as coordination of care and home services.

OTHER

Care as usual

Standard care as usual which may or may not include palliative care consultation

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Corita Grudzen, MD, MSHS · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2015-01-31
Completion
2015-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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