U.S., Nov. 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07224594) titled 'Comparing Optimized Models of Primary And Specialist Services for Palliative Care' on Oct. 24.
Brief Summary: Palliative care (PC) seeks to reduce suffering and improve quality of life for patients with serious illnesses and their families. National guidelines recommend that clinicians either provide palliative care themselves (generalist PC) or consult experts (specialist PC) as a standard part of serious illness care. This pragmatic clinical trial will be conducted with 48 hospitals at two large U.S. health systems and enroll more than 78,000 seriously ill hospitalized patients. Eligibility is determined by a mortality prediction s...