Nudging Effective and Equitable Delivery of Specialty Palliative Care
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Official title
Improving the Delivery and Equity of Inpatient Palliative Care: a Hybrid Type I Pragmatic Cluster Trial
Brief summary
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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 electronic health record (EHR): (1) a PC needs triggered alert to opt-in to PC consults nudging hospital clinicians to order specialty PC consults for eligible inpatients, and (2) a palliative care needs triggered alert with an opt-out to palliative care consults. The trial will compare the interventions effects to usual care, focusing on completed PC consults during the hospital encounter and other secondary outcomes. The trial also includes an embedded mixed methods study to explore factors influencing the effectiveness and equity of intervention implementation.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT06596577
- Recruitment status
- Enrolling by invitation
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 18,000 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Palliative care needs information Behavioral
- Default consult order Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 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
- Aug 5, 2025
- Primary completion
- Feb 29, 2028
- Completion
- Feb 27, 2029
- Last update posted
- Apr 29, 2026
2025 – 2029
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 9
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 5
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MedStar Georgetown University Hospital | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20007 | — |
| MedStar Washington Health Center | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20010 | — |
| MedStar Union Memorial Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21218 | — |
| MedStar Harbor Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21225 | — |
| MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21237 | — |
| MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21239 · | — |
| MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center | Clinton | Maryland | 20735 | — |
| MedStar St. Mary's Hospital | Leonardtown | Maryland | 20650 | — |
| MedStar Montgomery Medical Center | Olney | Maryland | 20832 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 29, 2026 · Synced Sep 3, 2026
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