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Improving Palliative Care Access Through Technology
ImPAcTT
2 other identifiers
interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started Feb 2018
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
2 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
February 19, 2018
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
May 4, 2021
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
July 20, 2021
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 30, 2022
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
June 30, 2022
CompletedJuly 20, 2021
July 1, 2021
4.4 years
May 4, 2021
July 7, 2021
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Change in Symptom distress (composite measure)
Symptom distress as measured by the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale - ESAS * ESAS physical score (total of physical 6 symptoms, score range 0-60) * ESAS emotional score (total of 2 emotional symptoms, score range 0-60) * ESAS total symptom distress score (physical score + emotional score + well being) For all symptom distress scores: High score means: worst outcome Low score means: better outcome
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Change in Symptom impact
Symptom impact as measured by the "Quality of Life at the End of Life" - QUAL-E Symptom impact subscale: Minimum value: 3 Maximum value: 15 High score means: worst outcome Low score means: better outcome
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Secondary Outcomes (10)
Change in number of completed POLST forms
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Type of changes in POLST forms
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Number of In-hospital death
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Change in Family Satisfaction
Baseline and Last visit -12 weeks
Number of residents transitioned to hospice
Last visit - week 12
- +5 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (2)
ImPAcTT intervention
EXPERIMENTALWithin 48-72 hours of enrollment in the study, the primary participant and family will receive an ImPAcTT Telehealth visit with the PC provider. The provider will conduct a comprehensive PC assessment aligned with the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care guidelines. Visits, which may include remote physical assessment using a digital stethoscope, dermatoscope, etc., will be documented and transmitted to the NH. Advanced Care Planning (ACP) and goals of care discussions will be facilitated by the ability to virtually share and edit documents, such as the Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), in real time with primary participants and/or family. The PC provider will conduct follow-up visits 1 week following the initial visit, then on a case-by-case basis.
Usual care
NO INTERVENTIONParticipants will receive the standard of care established at the NH.
Interventions
Eligibility Criteria
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
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of Utahlead
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)collaborator
Study Sites (2)
University of California San Francisco - UCSF
San Francisco, California, 94143, United States
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, United States
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MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Caroline E Stephens, PhD, RN
University of Utah
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FAAN, Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Presidential Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing, Associate Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
May 4, 2021
First Posted
July 20, 2021
Study Start
February 19, 2018
Primary Completion
June 30, 2022
Study Completion
June 30, 2022
Last Updated
July 20, 2021
Record last verified: 2021-07
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, CSR, ANALYTIC CODE
- Time Frame
- Data will be made available by the online publication date unless the NIH policy specifies an earlier date.
- Access Criteria
- This study has specific data and resource sharing plans to make data available both to the community of scientists interested in palliative care and nursing home research to avoid unintentional duplication of research. Moreover, the investigator would welcome collaboration with others who could make use of the Telehealth visit protocols developed in this ImPAcTT project.
Data (complete dataset with full documentation including metadata, protocols, etc) will be made available by the online publication date unless the NIH policy specifies an earlier date. The PI will work the primary mentor to ensure that the study data are submitted to the PCRC De-identified Data Repository. (https://palliativecareresearch.org/corescenters/data-informatics-statistics-core-disc/pcrc-de-identified-data-repository-didr). This would allow for secondary data analyses of the data to be conducted and support those who need access to these datasets for preliminary data and/or grant proposal preparation. Human subject data will be shared with other investigators within the limits of HIPAA and other patient confidentiality requirements, including the removal of all participant identifiers from all source documents and the use of unique participant identification numbers, and in accordance with PCRC protocols.