Study to Improve Care for Veterans During Serious Illness
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Palliative Care
In brief
Improving end-of-life care is of critical importance to the VA as it faces an increasingly aging and dying veteran population. Previous work within and outside of the VA has demonstrated serious deficiencies in the quality of care delivered near the end of life. Moreover, veterans in the VA system suffer from a higher rate of chronic and life-limiting illnesses and decrements in health-related quality of life compared with the age-matched controls. In FY2000 approximately 104,000 enrolled veterans died in the U.S. including 27,200 that died as inpatients in VA acute or chronic care medical wards. The care model on which the proposed study is based is theoretically sound and has been piloted in a study that suggested its use can help the VA achieve substantial quality improvement at reduced costs.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00106041
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 400
- Starts
- 2004-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-07
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All patients admitted to the hospital's general medicine service and estimated to have at least a 25% risk of dying over the following year.
You may not qualify if…
- Inability to pass cognitive screen
- Homelessness
- No telephone
- Admission from or discharge to a nursing home or hospice care
- Enrollment in another healthcare program or study that duplicates services of this study
- Receives most healthcare/primary healthcare services outside the VA GLA catchment area
- Does not speak English
Where it is running
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA — West Los Angeles, California, United States
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