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Wishes to Improve Support and Humanity at End-of-life in Safety-net Hospitals

NCT06277310 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2026-04-22

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Summary

Dignified and compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care is a cornerstone of high-quality, patient-centered care, but in safety-net hospitals EOL care is often overlooked, considered too late, or not at all. By eliciting and implementing final wishes for dying patients, the 3 Wishes Project (3WP) has demonstrated, in tertiary academic centers, that acts of compassion can improve the EOL experience and help families cope with loss. The investigators propose to implement the 3WP in safety-net hospitals where there are less resources and more diverse, disadvantaged patient populations, and hypothesize that there will be similar positive effects on the EOL experience for patients, families, and clinicians.

Conditions

  • End of Life

Interventions

OTHER

3 Wishes Project

palliative care initiative in which clinicians elicits and implements small acts of kindness for dying patients and their families

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Olive View-UCLA Education & Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • LAC+USC Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-03-19
Primary Completion
2028-08-01
Completion
2028-08-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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