Nurse led telephonic palliative care versus specialty outpatient palliative care: pragmatic, randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effectiveness of nurse led telephonic palliative care versus specialty outpatient palliative care on quality of life, symptom burden, loneliness, and healthcare use, after attending the emergency department.

Design

Pragmatic, randomised clinical trial.

Setting

Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA) randomised controlled trial enrolling participants from 18 emergency departments in 15 geographically diverse healthcare systems in nine US states, from 1 April 2018 to 30 June 2022.

Participants

Of 39 254 eligible patients, 1283 adults who visited the emergency department, were aged ≥50 years, who spoke English or Spanish, and had advanced cancer or end stage organ failure, were randomised to receive nurse led telephonic palliat

SUBMITTER: Grudzen CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612767 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature