Adding Specialist Palliative Care to Transplantation Pilot Trial
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- End Stage Liver DIsease
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Enrollment
- 15
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Appropriateness of Intervention
- Status
- Suspended
- Last Updated
- 8 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Specialist palliative care has been shown to be beneficial for patients experiencing serious illness, but has not been studied for patients being evaluated for liver transplantation. The investigators hope in the future to design a multi-center trial of a specialist palliative care intervention to measure the effects of specialist palliative care for patients undergoing liver transplant evaluation. This project represents a pilot to gather needed information to design such a future study.
Investigators
Myrick C. Shinall, Jr., MD, PhD
Study Principal Investigator Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •adult patients (age 18 years or greater) undergoing evaluation for liver transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patient does not speak English fluently
- •Patient lacks a telephone
- •Patient is a prisoner
- •Patient is deaf
- •Patient currently receives specialist palliative care
- •Patient is not a resident of Tennessee
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Appropriateness of Intervention
Time Frame: 2 months
Score on the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM), which measures how appropriate the palliative care intervention seems to the study participants with 4 questions, each scored 1-5 with higher scores indicating higher appropriateness.
Acceptability of Intervention
Time Frame: 2 months
Score on the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) which measures how acceptable participants find the intervention with 4 questions, each scored 1-5 with higher scores indicating greater acceptability.