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A Culturally-Based Palliative Care Tele-consult Program for Rural Southern Elders

NCT03767517 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 209

Last updated 2025-05-23

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Summary

Rural patients with life-limiting illness are at very high risk of not receiving appropriate care due to a lack of health professionals, long distances to treatment centers, and limited palliative care (PC) clinical expertise. Secondly, although culture strongly influences people's response to diagnosis, illness and treatment preferences, culturally-based care models are not currently available for most seriously-ill rural patients and their family caregivers. Lack of sensitivity to cultural differences may compromise PC for minority patients. The purpose of this study is to compare a culturally-based Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based PC Tele-consult program leads to lower symptom burden in hospitalized African American and White older adults with a life-limiting illness.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Active Intervention

Half of the patients will receive tele-consult program. Tele-consult intervention includes: initial consult and 2 follow up contacts. Usual care includes assessment and treatment by the admitting physician, along with any subspecialists that are consulted.

OTHER

Usual Care

Half of the patients will receive usual care. Usual care includes assessment and treatment by the admitting physician, along with any subspecialists that are consulted.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marie A Bakitas, DNSc · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-24
Primary Completion
2023-12-07
Completion
2024-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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