Recruiting

ACP

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT04778761

Conditions

Health Care Utilization

End Stage Disease

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Home ACP Video

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this research is to increase patients' knowledge about advance care planning (ACP) discussions and hospice care for patients with serious illness receiving home-based care.

Conditions

Health Care Utilization

End Stage Disease

Study ID

NCT04778761

Start date

Apr 1, 2021

Status verified date

Jan, 2026

Completion date

Dec 1, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 1, 2025

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Aged 21 or over
  • Have a one-year prognosis or less as determined by Clover Health's validated algorithm
  • Speak either English or one of the other 25 languages in which the video intervention is available

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Visually impaired beyond 20/200 corrected
  • Acute psychiatric illness or other comorbid condition that impairs cognitive ability to participate in advance care planning discussion as determined by the primary House Call Provider.

Study Design

Enrollment

500 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Usual Care

Usual care entails receiving usual medical care by the home-based care team.

experimental: Video intervention

In addition to usual care, the intervention will entail having a visit by a trained study clinician to provide access to the ACP video. The study clinician will discuss the content of the video and answer any questions.

Interventions

Home ACP Video

A video focused on Advance Care Planning and Hospice for patients with serious illness

Primary outcome measure

  • Hospice utilization [ Time Frame: up to one year follow-up or death ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Areej El-Jawahri, MD

617-724-4000ael-jawahri@partners.org

Locations

Clover Health

Recruiting

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 07302

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

Jan 20, 2026

Last verified

Jan, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2026-01-20.