Does Outpatient Palliative Care Improve Patient-centered Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease?

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Conditions studied: Parkinson's Disease

In brief

The purpose of this study is to improve outcomes for persons living with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and their family caregivers. The investigators hypothesize that outpatient interdisciplinary palliative care will improve patient-centered outcomes for PD patients at high-risk for poor outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02533921

Run by

University of Colorado, Denver

People needed

210

Starts

2015-10-01

Expected to finish

2019-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-01-31

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Fluent in English
• UK Brain Bank criteria for diagnosis of probable PD or Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA) or Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) or Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) or Lewy Body Dementia (LBD)
• At high risk for poor outcomes as identified by the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Tool (PC-NAT)

You may not qualify if…

• Immediate and urgent palliative care needs
• Unable or unwilling to commit to study procedures including;
• randomization,
• study visits or
• the addition of a neurologist to their care team
• Presence of additional chronic medical illnesses which may require palliative services
• Already receiving palliative care and/or hospice services.

Where it is running

• University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
• University of Colorado Hospital — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• University of Alberta Canada — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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