Intervention to Improve Care at Life's End

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Death, Pain, Dyspnea

In brief

The BEACON trial (Best Practices for End-of-Life Care for Our Nations' Veterans) was a six-site implementation study to evaluate a multi-component, education-based intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided in VA Medical Centers.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00234286

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

78

Starts

2005-08-01

Expected to finish

2013-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-27

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Aim 1: Not applicable. Patients were deceased.
• Aim 2: After-death interviews with next of kin: must be willing and able to participate in after-death interview at local VA Medical Center.

You may not qualify if…

• N/A

Where it is running

• Birmingham VA Medical Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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