Tier – Palliative Care For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure or Cancer

Description

The study aims are:

* To evaluate the feasibility of enrolling patients into a study of TIER-PC; and
* To provide data on subject retention, randomization success, intervention fidelity and estimates of the efficacy of the TIER-PC intervention in improving patients’ symptoms and quality of life, and reducing emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

This study will enroll 60 subjects with advanced non-colorectal gastrointestinal or lung cancer or advanced HF, 30 of which will be randomized to receive the study intervention and 30 of which will be randomized to receive usual care.

The expected study duration is 18 months from enrollment initiation to completion of data analysis consisting of a 52- week active enrollment period, a 3 month follow up period, and a three month data analysis period.