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Advance Care Planning clinical trials
4 of 10 indexed Advance Care Planning trials are currently recruiting.
Corpus placement: #1,724 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.
10 US clinical trials · 4 currently recruiting · #1,724 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count
Advance Care Planning: 10 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.
Advance Care Planning is the subject of 10 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is Southcentral Foundation, running 1 of these trials.
Enrollment posture brief
Registry condition advance-care-planning
OPEN 4 | RECR 40% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #1724 | SPON 1
Volume-matched condition peers
Nearest open-share peer: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) (40% recruiting · 30 trials)
Advance Care Planning lists 4 open slots (40% of 10 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →
Key findings
What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Advance Care Planning on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.
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Advance Care Planning is recruiting below its size-band peers.
4 of 10 indexed trials (40%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.
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Sponsorship of Advance Care Planning trials is spread across many organizations.
Southcentral Foundation accounts for 1 of 10 trials (10%). 10 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.
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Typical Advance Care Planning enrolment sits around 419 participants.
Median target enrolment is 419 among the 10 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 3 of those (30%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.
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Advance Care Planning research is mostly interventional.
8 interventional and 2 observational studies make up this index (80% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Open and recent trials
10 total, page 1 of 1
Project Talk Trial: Engaging Underserved Communities in End-of-life Conversations
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
NCT04612738
Advance Care Planning With Formerly Homeless Older Adults Residing in Permanent Supportive Housing
University of California, San Francisco
NCT06239896
Jumpstarting Advance Care Planning With ANAI People
Southcentral Foundation
NCT06538493
Resilience in East Asian Immigrants for Advance Care Planning Discussions
University of Illinois at Chicago
NCT06035549
Effectiveness of Engaging in Advance Care Planning Talks (ENACT) Group Visits in Primary Care for Older Adults With and Without Alzheimer's Disease
University of Colorado, Denver
NCT05421728
I Kua na'u Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Elders
Tufts Medical Center
NCT04771208
Patient-centered and Efficacious Advance Care Planning in Cancer: the PEACe Comparative Effectiveness Trial
University of Pittsburgh
NCT03824158
Advance Care Planning GuideTailored for Primary Care Patients
Ohio State University
NCT03906773
Motivational Interview Intervention to Help Patients Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department
Brigham and Women's Hospital
NCT03208530
An Intervention to Improve End of Life Decision Making Among Homeless Persons
University of Minnesota
NCT00471016
Phase Distribution
Phase data not available
Top Sponsors
Named interventions
Most-linked intervention names on Advance Care Planning records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.
US sites by state
Facility locations filed on Advance Care Planning trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.
Related
What to do with this Advance Care Planning page
10 registered trials, 4 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.
- 4 Advance Care Planning trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
- Southcentral Foundation sponsors the most Advance Care Planning trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Southcentral Foundation's trials
- Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide
Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.
Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Advance Care Planning condition card totals 10 registered trials; most-linked intervention Guided intervention; top US site state Colorado. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.