NCT07391956Recruiting
Tier Palliative Care For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure or Cancer
TIER-PALLIATIVE CARE: A Population-based Care Delivery Model to Match Evolving Patient Needs and Palliative Care Services for Community-based Patients With Heart Failure or Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
TIER-PC is an adaptive model of delivering palliative care that provides the right level of care to the right patients at the right time. It represents an adaption of the Mount Sinai PALLIATIVE CARE AT HOME (PC@H) program, which delivers home-based palliative care. TIER-PC increases the number and intensity of disciplines added to the patient's care team as their symptoms worsen and function declines. In Tier 1, patients who are able to care for themselves and no/mild symptoms receive a community health worker (CHW) trained to elicit illness understanding in a culturally competent way. In Tier 2, for patients with poorer function and mild symptoms, a social worker (SW), trained in serious illness communication, joins the CHW to further elicit patients' goals and prognostic understanding while communicating symptom needs to their primary clinician. In Tier 3, as function decreases and symptoms increase, an advance practice nurse (APN) joins the CHW and SW to manage complex symptoms. Finally, in Tier 4, for those older adults with the poorest function and most complex symptoms, a physician joins the team to ensure that the most complex needs (e.g., end-of-life treatment preferences and multifaceted symptom control) are met. The CHW follows patients longitudinally across all tiers and re-allocates them to the appropriate tier based on their evolving needs.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 400 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Jan 2026
- Start date
- 10 Jul 2026
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- NCT number
- NCT07391956
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 400
- From 10 Jul 2026 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2030
- 5 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Previous receipt of a ventricular assist device or previous heart transplantation
- Receiving hospice care prior to study enrollment or enrolled in another study of a palliative care patient/caregiver intervention
Other illness
- Diagnoses of both cancer and advanced HF
Lab values
- Lung cancer with a driver mutation (e.g., EGFR) that confers a favorable prognosis and does not follow typical trajectory
Other
- Patients with \> 1 visit to Outpatient Supportive Oncology/Cardiology visit
- Patients with last visit to Outpatient Supportive Oncology/Cardiology \< 3 months ago
- Living in a facility (subacute rehab, long-term care facility, hospice facility or residence)
- Callahan 6-Item Cognitive Screening score ≤3
Who the study is looking for
- Advanced Heart Failure (HF) with two HF-related hospitalizations within the last 12 months or
- Advanced lung or non-colorectal gastrointestinal cancer (pancreatic, gastric, hepatobiliary, small bowel, esophageal) or tripe negative breast cancer with one hospitalization within the last 6 months
- KPS \> or = 50% (ECOG 0, 1 or 2)
- \> 2 outpatient MSHS visits in prior 12 months
- Manhattan or Queens residence
- Capacity to provide informed consent
- English or Spanish fluency
- \> or = 18 years of age
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (5)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sinai Queens Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Astoria | United States | Recruiting |
| Mount Sinai Morningside Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Mount Sinai Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Mount Sinai West Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Mount Sinai Downtown Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
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