Adding Specialist Palliative Care to Transplantation Pilot Trial

Specialist palliative care has been shown to be beneficial for patients experiencing serious illness, but has not been studied for patients being evaluated for liver transplantation. The investigators hope in the future to design a multi-center trial of a specialist palliative care intervention to measure the effects of specialist palliative care for patients undergoing liver transplant evaluation. This project represents a pilot to gather needed information to design such a future study.

Why the study stopped: Lack of Funding

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Key information

Conditions

End Stage Liver Disease Digestive System Diseases Hepatic Insufficiency Liver Diseases Liver Failure

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, 37232, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

adult patients (age 18 years or greater) undergoing evaluation for liver transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

Patient does not speak English fluently
Patient lacks a telephone
Patient is a prisoner
Patient is deaf
Patient currently receives specialist palliative care
Patient is not a resident of Tennessee

Treatment and study plan

Palliative Care Consultation

Behavioral

In person or telehealth clinic visit with palliative care physician or nurse practitioner

Primary outcomes

Acceptability of Intervention

Time frame: 2 months

Score on the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) which measures how acceptable participants find the intervention with 4 questions, each scored 1-5 with higher scores indicating greater acceptability.
Appropriateness of Intervention

Time frame: 2 months

Score on the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM), which measures how appropriate the palliative care intervention seems to the study participants with 4 questions, each scored 1-5 with higher scores indicating higher appropriateness.

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Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Registry information

Acronym: ASPECT-Pilot

Important dates

Study start: 2022
Primary completion: 2023
Study completion: 2029
First posted: Dec 7, 2021
Registry last updated: Sep 25, 2026

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