Wishes to Improve Support and Humanity at End-of-life in Safety-net Hospitals
Running, not enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: End of Life
In brief
Dignified and compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care is a cornerstone of high-quality, patient-centered care, but in safety-net hospitals EOL care is often overlooked, considered too late, or not at all. By eliciting and implementing final wishes for dying patients, the 3 Wishes Project (3WP) has demonstrated, in tertiary academic centers, that acts of compassion can improve the EOL experience and help families cope with loss. The investigators propose to implement the 3WP in safety-net hospitals where there are less resources and more diverse, disadvantaged patient populations, and hypothesize that there will be similar positive effects on the EOL experience for patients, families, and clinicians.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06277310
- Run by
- University of California, Los Angeles
- People needed
- 900
- Starts
- 2024-03-19
- Expected to finish
- 2028-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-04-22
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For participation in the 3WP, if there was a decision to withdraw life support or the health care team agreed that the patient's probability of dying in the hospital or on discharge to hospice was >95% For surveys, next of kin/surrogate of a patient who died in the ICU during the study period For surveys, speaks English or Spanish
You may not qualify if…
- <18 years old
- does not speak english or spanish
Where it is running
- LA General Hospital — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Olive View Medical Center — Sylmar, California, United States
- Harbor-UCLA — Torrance, California, United States
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