Status:
COMPLETED
Study to Improve Care for Veterans During Serious Illness
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Conditions:
Palliative Care
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Improving end-of-life care is of critical importance to the VA as it faces an increasingly aging and dying veteran population. Previous work within and outside of the VA has demonstrated serious defic...
Detailed Description
Background / Rationale: Improving end-of-life care is of critical importance to the VA as it faces an increasingly aging and dying veteran population. In FY2000 approximately 104,000 enrolled veterans...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All patients admitted to the hospital's general medicine service and estimated to have at least a 25% risk of dying over the following year.
Exclusion
- Inability to pass cognitive screen
- Homelessness
- No telephone
- Admission from or discharge to a nursing home or hospice care
- Enrollment in another healthcare program or study that duplicates services of this study
- Receives most healthcare/primary healthcare services outside the VA GLA catchment area
- Does not speak English
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00106041
Start Date
August 1 2004
End Date
September 1 2012
Last Update
April 7 2015
Active Locations (1)
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VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
West Los Angeles, California, United States, 90073