NCT07737899Not yet recruiting
Primary Palliative Care - a Feasibility Cluster Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This feasibility cluster-controlled randomized trial (RCT) evaluates a complex intervention for the delivery of primary palliative care in Family Health Units (FHUs). The intervention consists of training General Practitioners (GPs) in palliative care through a 30 hour e-learning program and implementing a structured consultation model (4 consultations over 12 weeks) for adult patients with advanced chronic illness. One FHU will receive the intervention and one FHU will follow usual care. The primary goal is to assess feasibility metrics (GP adherence, patient recruitment rate, and patient retention rate), which will inform the design of a subsequent full-scale cluster RCT.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Jul 2026
- Start date
- Oct 2026
- Primary completion date
- Feb 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Coimbra
- Diseases
- Chronic kidney disease, Heart failure, COPD
- NCT number
- NCT07737899
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 30
- From Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, Feb 2027
- 2 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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Other illness
- Disease severity requiring urgent medical intervention (acute crisis/emergency care need at time of recruitment).
Other
- Refusal to provide informed consent or to participate in the study at any point.
Who the study is looking for
- Aged 18 years or older.
- Enrolled as a patient on the list of a recruited General Practitioner in one of the participating Family Health Units.
- Diagnosed with one or more of the following advanced chronic conditions:
- Advanced-stage neoplasm (metastatic/stage IV cancer);
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - GOLD classification III or IV;
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) - New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification III or IV;
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) - stage IV or V.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Health Unit 2 - ULS Coimbra (Control) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Coimbra | Portugal | Unknown status |
| Family Health Unit 1 - ULS Coimbra (Intervention) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Coimbra | Portugal | Unknown status |
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