A Culturally-Based Palliative Care Tele-consult Program for Rural Southern Elders

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

209

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 24, 2020

Primary Completion Date

December 7, 2023

Study Completion Date

August 30, 2024

Conditions
CancerCardiac DiseasePulmonary DiseaseNeuro-Degenerative DiseaseRenal DiseaseStrokeSepsisHepatic Disease
Interventions
OTHER

Active Intervention

Half of the patients will receive tele-consult program. Tele-consult intervention includes: initial consult and 2 follow up contacts. Usual care includes assessment and treatment by the admitting physician, along with any subspecialists that are consulted.

OTHER

Usual Care

Half of the patients will receive usual care. Usual care includes assessment and treatment by the admitting physician, along with any subspecialists that are consulted.

Trial Locations (4)

29801

Aiken Regional Medical Center, Aiken

35010

Russell Medical Center, Alexander City

39301

Anderson Regional Medical Center, Meridian

39466

Highland Community Hospital, Picayune

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

lead

University of Alabama at Birmingham

OTHER

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