A Culturally-Based Palliative Care Tele-consult Program for Rural Southern Elders
Rural patients with life-limiting illness are at very high risk of not receiving appropriate care due to a lack of health professionals, long distances to treatment centers, and limited palliative care (PC) clinical expertise. Secondly, although culture strongly influences people's response to diagnosis, illness and treatment preferences, culturally-based care models are not currently available for most seriously-ill rural patients and their family caregivers. Lack of sensitivity to cultural differences may compromise PC for minority patients. The purpose of this study is to compare a culturally-based Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based PC Tele-consult program leads to lower symptom burden in hospitalized African American and White older adults with a life-limiting illness.
Checked against the public recordLast updated May 23, 2025 · Source: ClinicalTrials.gov
What this study is about
- Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Interventions being studied
- Other: Active Intervention; Other: Usual Care
How this study is categorized
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Who may be able to participate
Inclusion Criteria: * AA or W; * 55 years old; has a condition which fits into one of 3 illness paradigms -cancer, chronic progressive, frailty. * Clinician answers "no" to question: "Would you be surprised if this person died in the next 12 months?" * Patient has a caregiver who has been involved in their care. * Able to complete baseline interviews Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to complete baseline interviews; * Currently receiving hospice care; * No family member/caregiver.
Important: This is the sponsor’s public criteria, not a determination of eligibility. The study team must review your individual situation.
U.S. locations
- Russell Medical CenterAlexander City, Alabama
- Anderson Regional Medical CenterMeridian, Mississippi
- Highland Community HospitalPicayune, Mississippi
- Aiken Regional Medical CenterAiken, South Carolina
Source and freshness
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