Adding Specialist Palliative Care to Transplantation Pilot Trial (ASPECT-Pilot)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Status: Suspended

Conditions: End Stage Liver DIsease

Treatments: Behavioral: Palliative Care Consultation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05147935

ASPECT-Pilot

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 15 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients (age 18 years or greater) undergoing evaluation for liver transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient does not speak English fluently
2. Patient lacks a telephone
3. Patient is a prisoner
4. Patient is deaf
5. Patient currently receives specialist palliative care
6. Patient is not a resident of Tennessee

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Specialist Palliative Care

Experimental group

Description:

All patients will be assigned to receive the intervention, consisting of two outpatient palliative care visits at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Palliative Care Consultation