Status:
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Nudging Effective and Equitable Delivery of Specialty Palliative Care
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Medstar Health Research Institute
Conditions:
Serious Illness
Palliative
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
This stepped-wedge, cluster randomized pragmatic trial among 9 MedStar hospitals for patients with serious illness and unmet palliative care (PC) needs will test two interventions embedded within the ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age 18 years or older; AND
- Admitted to inpatient status at 1 of the 9 participating hospitals
- Meets validated score threshold of 8 from the MedStar unmet PC needs patient identification algorithm, utilizing empirically-derived weights for each PC need domain within the algorithm.
Exclusion
- Primary inpatient service: hospice, rehabilitation, psychiatry, obstetrics, neonatal
- Signed hospital discharge order
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 6 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
March 31 2029
Estimated Enrollment :
18000 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06596577
Start Date
August 6 2025
End Date
March 31 2029
Last Update
November 10 2025
Active Locations (9)
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1
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States, 20007
2
MedStar Washington Health Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States, 20010
3
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21218
4
MedStar Harbor Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21225