Randomized Evaluation of Default Access to Palliative Services
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Official title
Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients
Brief summary
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This is a large pragmatic, randomized controlled trial to test the real-world effectiveness of inpatient palliative care consultative services in improving a number of patient- and family-centered processes and outcomes of care among seriously ill hospitalized patients. The investigators hypothesize that improved patient-centered outcomes can be achieved without higher costs by simply changing the default option for inpatient palliative care consultation for eligible patients from an opt-in to an opt-out system. To test this hypothesis the investigators will conduct a clinical trial at 11 hospitals using the same electronic health record within Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health system in the U.S.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02505035
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 34,239 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 65 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 29, 2016
- Primary completion
- Oct 31, 2018
- Completion
- Aug 31, 2020
- Last update posted
- Sep 10, 2020
2016 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 11
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 9
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Vincent's Medical Center | Bridgeport | Connecticut | 06606 | — |
| St. Vincent's Medical Center, Riverside | Jacksonville | Florida | 32204 | — |
| St. Vincent's Medical Center, Southside | Jacksonville | Florida | 32216 | — |
| Via Christi Hospital, St. Francis | Wichita | Kansas | 67214 | — |
| Via Christi Hospital, St. Joseph | Wichita | Kansas | 67218 | — |
| Borgess Medical Center | Kalamazoo | Michigan | 49048 | — |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital | Binghamton | New York | 13905 | — |
| St. Thomas West Hospital | Nashville | Tennessee | 37205 | — |
| University Medical Center Brackenridge | Austin | Texas | 78701 | — |
| Columbia St. Mary's, Ozaukee | Mequon | Wisconsin | 53097 | — |
| Columbia St. Mary's, North Lake | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 53211 | — |
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- Last update posted Sep 10, 2020 · Synced Sep 4, 2026
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