Impact of Predictive Modeling on Time to Palliative Care in an Outpatient Primary Care Population

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Palliative Care

In brief

A machine learning algorithm will be used to accurately identify patients in certain primary care units who may benefit from palliative care consults.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04604457

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

127070

Starts

2020-08-31

Expected to finish

2021-05-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-06-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult patient assigned to a primary care unit from July 2020 to June 2021.
• Weekly the palliative care specialists will select patients by looking at patients in sorted order starting with the highest score and proceeding down the list and evaluating each patient for exclusion criteria.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients that have been seen by Palliative care will be excluded for 75 days
• Patients under the age of 18 years.
• Patients currently enrolled with hospice

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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