Clinical trialNCT01358110CompletedInterventional

Emergency Department-Based Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients

SponsorIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiEnrollment136Advanced CancerMetastatic Cancer

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to: 1) identify the palliative care needs of Emergency Department patients with advanced cancer, and determine if these needs can be rapidly assessed in the ED; 2) determine whether early palliative care consultation improves survival, quality of life and other burdensome symptoms and decreases utilization as compared to usual care.

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Investigators

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Corita Grudzen, MD, MSHS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 May 2011
Primary completion: 31 Jan 2015
Completion: 31 Jan 2015
Last update posted: 26 Jun 2015
Registered enrollment: 136
Registry id: NCT01358110

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.