Improving Palliative Care Access Through Technology

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Conditions studied: Telehealth, Palliative Care

In brief

This project will focus on developing, optimizing and pilot-testing a multi-component Improving Access Through Technology (ImPAcTT) intervention that leverages existing telehealth technologies to provide staff education; family outreach, engagement and support; care coordination; and resident symptom management and facilitation of goals-of-care discussion.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04969484

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

81

Starts

2018-02-19

Expected to finish

2022-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-07-20

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Primary participant
• Age >= 18 years
• English language fluency
• Palliative Care Consult Screening Tool (PCCS) scoring 9 or above
• If participant does not demonstrate capacity to consent, he/she must be able to assent to study procedures, be told of plan to approach surrogate and have a legally authorized representative available to provide consent
• Family/friend caregivers:
• Closest relative/next of kin/friend who is involved in the care of his/her loved one before and during the study period
• English fluency

You may not qualify if…

• Primary participant:
• Enrolled in hospice
• Unable to assent to study procedures
• Expresses resistance or dissent to participation or the use of surrogate consent
• Family/friend caregiver:
• Life expectancy < 1 year (e.g., metastatic cancer)
• Evidence of cognitive impairment or inability to consent to study procedures

Where it is running

• University of California San Francisco - UCSF — San Francisco, California, United States
• University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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