Clinical trials: Terminal Care
End Stage Cancer
An Interactive Advance Care Planning Intervention to Facilitate a Good Death for Cancer Patients
The purpose of this 5-year interventional study is to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at facilitating prognosis communication and end-of-life care decision-making to increase the extent…
- Trial name
- NCT01912846
- Testing
- Interactive advance care planning, Attention usual care
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 466 people
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung University
Terminal Illness
ADJUST: A Study on MDT Prognostication
This study investigates how clinicians form intuitive judgements about the prognoses of palliative care patients after receiving advice perceived as coming from either a team member or an algorithm.
- Trial name
- ADJUST (NCT04568629)
- Testing
- Advice from the PiPS-B14 prognostic tool, Advice from another clinician
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 323 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Terminal Conditions, End of Life
Evaluation of Methods for Implementation of a Comfort Care Order Set
The overarching goal of this research program is to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided to Veterans dying in VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), by transferring the best practices of home hospice and palliative care for the…
- Trial name
- BEACON II (NCT02383173)
- Testing
- Basic Implementation Approach, Enhanced Implementation Approach
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 134 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Advance Care Planning
End-of-Life Care for African Americans: An Outpatient Intervention
Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care.
- Trial name
- NCT03626402
- Testing
- Planning for the Care You Want
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 72 people
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Palliative Care
A Novel Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for Asian Palliative Care
Background: The lack of a holistic approach to palliative care can lead to a fractured sense of dignity at the end of life, resulting in depression, hopelessness, feelings of being a burden to others, and the loss of will to live…
- Trial name
- FDI (NCT03200730)
- Testing
- Family Dignity Intervention group
- Where
- 2 sites in Singapore
- Volunteers
- 252 people
- Sponsor
- Nanyang Technological University
Advance Care Planning, Vulnerable Populations
Using an End-of-life Conversation Game to Engage Underserved Communities in Advance Care Planning
This national project will provide an effective, evidence-based intervention for advance care planning (ACP) to 50 underserved US communities, those with poor access to healthcare systems due to economic, cultural or other…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Vulnerable Populations, Advance Directives, Terminal Illness
- Trial name
- NCT03456921
- Testing
- End-of-life conversation game called "Hello"
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,122 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
End of Life Care, Critical Illness
Palliative Care Protocol for Adult Patients Hospitalized in Critical Care Units.
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the effectiveness of a palliative care protocol in improving the quality of care of adult patients at high risk of dying hospitalized in the critical care unit.
- Conditions
- End of Life Care, Critical Illness, Palliative Care
- Trial name
- NCT06483958
- Testing
- palliative care protocol
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 248 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chile
End-Stage Kidney Disease, Peritonitis
Check List to Improve Patient Self-care and Product Defect Report in Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) has been the main method of treatment for Thai End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients under the "PD First" policy of the Universal Coverage (UC) scheme.
- Trial name
- CLIP-SP (NCT02755610)
- Testing
- PD Product Check List
- Where
- Thailand
- Volunteers
- 880 people
- Sponsor
- Chulalongkorn University
Palliative Care
Decision Making With Bioethical Perspective in Palliative Care en Mexico
All clinical practice includes decision making, and sometimes you are ethically challenging because of the consequences it will bring to the patient, the health professional or society in general.
- Trial name
- NCT03913390
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Guadalajara
Palliative Care, Deep Sedations
Prevalence of Deep Sedation in Terminal Palliative Phase
This nation-wide, multicentric, prospective and cross-sectional study aims to estimate the prevalence of deep sedations (i.e. with a -4 or -5 score at the Richmond scale at the induction time) for patients in terminal phase and…
- Trial name
- PREVAL-S2P (NCT04333719)
- Testing
- Type of sedations
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 183 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
Locally Advanced Cancer, Metastatic Cancer
Identification of In-hospital Patients in Need of Palliative Care Using a New Simplified Screening Tool
Every day many patients affected by chronic life-limiting illnesses are admitted into Internal Medicine wards, coming from the Emergency Department.
- Conditions
- Locally Advanced Cancer, Metastatic Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Failure, Chronic Heart Failure
- Trial name
- SST2017 (NCT04143230)
- Testing
- Screening for PC by means of two different screening tools
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 660 people
- Sponsor
- A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza
Type 2 Diabetes, End Stage Renal Disease
Closed-loop in Adults With T2D Requiring Dialysis
The main objective of this study is to determine the efficacy, safety and utility of fully automated closed-loop glucose control in the home setting over a 20 day period in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) requiring maintenance…
- Trial name
- AP-Renal (NCT04025775)
- Testing
- CamAPS HX Closed-loop, Multiple Daily Insulin Injections (Control)
- Where
- 2 sites in Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Cambridge
Palliative Care
Study to Improve Care for Veterans During Serious Illness
Improving end-of-life care is of critical importance to the VA as it faces an increasingly aging and dying veteran population. Previous work within and outside of the VA has demonstrated serious deficiencies in the quality of…
- Trial name
- NCT00106041
- Testing
- Veterans Integrated Palliative Care Nurse Case Manager
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Question Prompt List, Caregivers
The Effectiveness of Using a Palliative Care QPL on the Selfefficacy and Preparedness of Indonesian Homecare Workers
Foreign studies on caregivers' use of QPL in end-of-life care, decision-making, and satisfaction are mostly conducted with family members who share the same language.
- Conditions
- Question Prompt List, Caregivers, End-of-life Care
- Trial name
- NCT06847828
- Testing
- QPL
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Den,Yu-Yun
Advanced Cancer, Terminal Malignant Tumors
Nurses' Competence and Role in Survival Prediction and Prognostic Communication
[Background] Nurses' roles in survival prediction and prognostic communication have historically been limited due to role delineation, lack of formal training, and cultural norms.
- Conditions
- Advanced Cancer, Terminal Malignant Tumors, Hospices
- Trial name
- NCT06962553
- Volunteers
- 152 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
End Stage Heart Disease, Heart Failure
Transitional Palliative Care in End-stage Heart Failure
Palliative care for end-stage organ failure patients has been included as one of the key programs to be implemented in 2011-2012 in the Hospital Authority, Hong Kong.
- Trial name
- NCT02086305
- Testing
- Transitional Care Model, Usual care
- Where
- 3 sites in Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Cancer, End-of-Life
Coaches Activating Reaching and Engaging Patients
The purpose of the Team Based Advance Care Planning CAREPLAN program is to understand if a trained lay navigator who engages with patients with advanced stages of cancer can help patients in advance care planning, improve patient…
- Trial name
- CAREPlan (NCT03856463)
- Testing
- Lay Navigator Intervention, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Chatbot-Based Training, Hemodialysis
DialysisBot: AI Chatbot for Hemodialysis Self-Management
End-stage kidney disease requiring hemodialysis is a chronic condition with substantial clinical, functional, and psychosocial burden.
- Conditions
- Chatbot-Based Training, Hemodialysis, Self-management
- Trial name
- NCT07830810
- Testing
- DialysisBot
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
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
Self-Efficacy, Attitude
End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program for Senior Nursing Students
In this study, between 1 April- 31 May 2025, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 59 senior nursing students who are with 4th year nursing students starting the Nursing Department of Çankırı Karatekin…
- Conditions
- Self-Efficacy, Attitude, End-of-Life Care
- Trial name
- NCT07257159
- Testing
- The End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 59 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hilal ALTUNDAL DURU