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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