NCT06228209
Tier - Palliative Care For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure or Cancer
Recruiting
NAAges 18+InterventionalHealth servicesIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiInvestigator-initiated
~60 participants
Updated 2026-07-15 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Tier-Palliative Care
At a glance
Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
The proportion of screened eligible patients
Measured over 3 months
Conditions
NCT06228209
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New Yorkstudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Laura Gelfman, MD, MPH · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Eligibility criteria
Inclusion
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) with one hospitalization within the last 6 months
KPS \> 50% (ECOG 0, 1 or 2)
\> 2 outpatient MSHS visits in prior 12 months
Manhattan residence
Capacity to provide informed consent
English or Spanish fluency
\> 18 years of age
Exclusion
Diagnoses of both cancer and advanced HF
Lung cancer with a driver mutation (e.g., EGFR) that confers a favorable prognosis and does not follow typical trajectory
Patients with \> 1 visit to Outpatient Supportive Oncology/Cardiology visit
Patients with last visit to Outpatient Supportive Oncology/Cardiology \< 3 months ago
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
Living in a facility (subacute rehab, long-term care facility, hospice facility or residence)
Callahan 6-Item Cognitive Screening score ≤3
What this trial measures
- The proportion of screened eligible patients3 months
The proportion of screened eligible patients that are enrolled in the trial.