Clinical trialNCT05001009CompletedInterventional

Goals of Care Conversations Study

SponsorVA Office of Research and DevelopmentEnrollment2,859CancerChronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseDementiaEnd-stage Liver DiseaseEnd-stage Renal DiseaseHeart Failure+2 more conditions

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The long term goal is to improve quality of care in Veterans with serious illnesses by aligning medical care with Veterans' goals and values. The objective of this study is to use a sequentially randomized trial to determine what implementation strategies are effective to increase early, outpatient goals of care conversations. The study will use interviews with and surveys of medical providers, patients, and caregivers, along with medical record data. This work is significant because it tests ways Veterans can express their goals and preferences for life sustaining treatments and have them honored.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Anne M Walling, MD PhD
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
Principal Investigator
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David Bekelman, MD MPH
Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO
Principal Investigator
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Sites

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

United States

Va Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, Ca
Palo Alto, California, United States
Va Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, Ca
West Los Angeles, California, United States
Rocky Mountain Regional Va Medical Center, Aurora, Co
Aurora, Colorado, 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: 13 Sept 2022
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2024
Completion: 30 Sept 2025
Last update posted: 16 Sept 2026
Registered enrollment: 2,859
Registry id: NCT05001009

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.