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Behavioral Intervention

Nurse-led telephonic case management for Organ Failure (EMPallA Trial)

Q: Are multiple healthcare facilities testing this experimental therapy in the urban area?

<p>Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, <a href="https://www.withpower.com/clinical-trials/illinois">Illinois</a>; University of <a href="https://www.withpower.com/clinical-trials/california">California</a> Irvine Medical Center located in Orange, <a href="https://www.withpower.com/clinical-trials/michigan">Michigan</a>; and the University of California San Diego Medical Center situated in San Diego are just some of the 18 medical sites enrolling patients for this trial.</p>

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Waitlist Available

Led By Corita R. Grudzen, MD, MSHS, FACEP

Research Sponsored by NYU Langone Health

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up up to month 12

Awards & highlights

EMPallA Trial Summary

This trial is testing two different ways to provide palliative care to older adults with either advanced cancer or end-stage organ failure. One way is called nurse-led telephonic case management and the other is called facilitated, outpatient specialty palliative care.

Eligible Conditions

End Stage Organ Failure
Cancer

EMPallA Trial Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ up to month 12

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~up to month 12

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and up to month 12 for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Change in quality of life for patients, as measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General (FACT-G)

Secondary outcome measures

Caregiver Bereavement, as measured by the Texas Inventory of Grief

Change in Caregiver Quality of Life, as measured by the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS-10)

Change in Caregiver strain, as measured by the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI-12)

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EMPallA Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Nurse-led telephonic case managementExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Telephonic nurses will contact patients within 72 hours of enrollment Patients will speak with the telephonic nurse over the phone once a week (or as often as needed) for a duration of 6 months.

Group II: Facilitated, outpatient specialty palliative careActive Control1 Intervention

Patients will be scheduled for their first in-person palliative care visit within two weeks of enrollment and then once a month for 6 months. Clinic visits will be scheduled the same day as other specialty appointments if possible

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Nurse-led telephonic case management

2018

N/A

~1350

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Yale UniversityOTHER

1,862 Previous Clinical Trials

2,741,218 Total Patients Enrolled

Beaumont HealthUNKNOWN

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUNKNOWN

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are multiple healthcare facilities testing this experimental therapy in the urban area?

"Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois; University of California Irvine Medical Center located in Orange, Michigan; and the University of California San Diego Medical Center situated in San Diego are just some of the 18 medical sites enrolling patients for this trial."

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Is enrollment currently available for this trial?

"The information found on clinicaltrials.gov reveals that this medical trial is no longer actively recruiting patients, as the study was first posted in March of 2018 and last updated in August 2020. While recruitment has ceased for this specific trial, there are presently 336 other trials accepting participants."

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Recent research and studies

BMJ OpenJournal

Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (empalla): Protocol for a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Specialty Outpatient Versus Nurse-led Telephonic Palliative Care of Older Adults with Advanced Illness

Grudzen, Corita R, Deborah J Shim, Abigail M Schmucker, Jeanne Cho, and Keith S Goldfeld. 2019. “Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (empalla): Protocol for a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Specialty Outpatient Versus Nurse-led Telephonic Palliative Care of Older Adults with Advanced Illness”. BMJ Open. BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025692.

BMC Emergency MedicineJournal

Data from Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (empalla): A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Specialty Outpatient Versus Telephonic Palliative Care of Older Adults with Advanced Illness Presenting to the Emergency Department

Schmucker, Abigail M., Mara Flannery, Jeanne Cho, Keith S. Goldfeld, Corita Grudzen, Caroline Blaum, Jason Bischof, et al.. 2021. “Data from Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (empalla): A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Specialty Outpatient Versus Telephonic Palliative Care of Older Adults with Advanced Illness Presenting to the Emergency Department”. BMC Emergency Medicine. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1186/s12873-021-00478-4.

Journal of Hospice & Palliative NursingJournal

Nurse-led Telephonic Palliative Care

Yamarik, Rebecca L., Audrey Tan, Abraham A. Brody, Jennifer Curtis, Laraine Chiu, Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois, and Corita R. Grudzen. 2022. “Nurse-led Telephonic Palliative Care”. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). doi:10.1097/njh.0000000000000850.

BMC Palliative CareJournal