NCT01589601

Palliative Care in Heart Failure (PAL-HF)

Extracted Fields (from Registry)
Protocol IDNCT01589601
Registration Date2012-05-02
Statuscompleted
SponsorDuke University
CountryUnited States
Industrynot industry
Blindingunblinded
Center Typesingel-center RCT
Scopenational RCT
First Patient In2012-08-01
Last Patient Out2016-02-01
Publicationy
Gender %ALL
Mean Age19 Years -
LLM Classifications (Side-by-Side)
Field CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
6296ms / 11858 tok
OPENAI
gpt-4o
3459ms / 10206 tok
GLM
glm-5.1
6745ms / 10381 tok
Review
rct_type parallel RCT parallel RCT parallel RCT OK
cancer_status non-cancer non-cancer non-cancer OK
non_cancer_spec cardiac cardiac cardiac OK
setting_patient outpatient outpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: outpatient Requery: outpatient — The study explicitly states that the intervention takes place after hospital discharge with outpatient follow-up visits to cardiologists and nurse practitioners.
outpatient mixed → outpatient
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: mixed Requery: outpatient — The intervention is delivered after discharge during outpatient follow-up appointments with a heart failure cardiologist or nurse practitioner focusing on outpatient care.
mixed –
setting_place other other → other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: other — The study takes place in outpatient follow-up with heart failure cardiologist or nurse practitioner after hospital discharge, indicating outpatient clinic setting rather than inpatient hospital care.
other hospital → other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: hospital Requery: other — The trial delivers outpatient follow-up care and palliative interventions, which occur after patients are discharged from the hospital and do not require inpatient admission, fitting the 'other' classification.
hospital –
feasibility fully powered RCT fully powered RCT fully powered RCT OK
intervention_pharmacologic no no no OK
intervention_chemo_immuno_radio no no no OK
intervention_complementary no no no OK
intervention_device no no no OK
intervention_psychological yes yes no –
intervention_complex yes yes yes OK
intervention_acp yes yes yes OK
intervention_music no no no OK
intervention_screening no no no OK
intervention_palliative yes yes yes OK
intervention_education no no no OK
intervention_digital no no no OK
intervention_other no no no OK
outcome_symptom yes yes yes OK
outcome_qol yes yes yes OK
outcome_dignity yes yes yes OK
outcome_cost yes yes yes OK
outcome_other yes yes yes OK
pharmacologic_sub N/A N/A N/A OK
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