Status:
COMPLETED
Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER)
Lead Sponsor:
NYU Langone Health
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Conditions:
Emergencies
Eligibility:
All Genders
66+ years
Brief Summary
This proposal builds upon the evaluation of Primary Palliative Care Education, Training, and Technical Support for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER) implemented in a cluster-randomized, stepped wedge desig...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients must demonstrate one-year mortality of at least 30 percent (score \> 6) according to the Gagne Index, a validated instrument used to measure all cause one-year mortality in community-dwelling older adults, calculated based on their prior 12 months before the index ED visit of Medicare claims.
Exclusion
- ED patients transferred from a nursing home on the index ED visit will be excluded since prediction of mortality and disposition of such patients differs from community-dwelling adults.
- Patients currently receiving hospice at the time of the index ED visit will also be excluded since they have already received services.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2019
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 31 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
98922 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03424109
Start Date
July 1 2019
End Date
December 31 2022
Last Update
June 22 2025
Active Locations (1)
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New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York, United States, 10016