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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

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) (40% recruiting · 30 trials)

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Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Advance Care Planning

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

RECRUITING NA 1,500 participants

Project Talk Trial: Engaging Underserved Communities in End-of-life Conversations

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT04612738

RECRUITING NA 650 participants

Advance Care Planning With Formerly Homeless Older Adults Residing in Permanent Supportive Housing

University of California, San Francisco

NCT06239896

RECRUITING NA 400 participants

Jumpstarting Advance Care Planning With ANAI People

Southcentral Foundation

NCT06538493

RECRUITING 84 participants

Resilience in East Asian Immigrants for Advance Care Planning Discussions

University of Illinois at Chicago

NCT06035549

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 516 participants

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

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 220 participants

I Kua na'u Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Elders

Tufts Medical Center

NCT04771208

COMPLETED NA 672 participants

Patient-centered and Efficacious Advance Care Planning in Cancer: the PEACe Comparative Effectiveness Trial

University of Pittsburgh

NCT03824158

COMPLETED 419 participants

Advance Care Planning GuideTailored for Primary Care Patients

Ohio State University

NCT03906773

COMPLETED NA 75 participants

Motivational Interview Intervention to Help Patients Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT03208530

COMPLETED NA 59 participants

An Intervention to Improve End of Life Decision Making Among Homeless Persons

University of Minnesota

NCT00471016

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Advance Care Planning records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Guided intervention Behavioral
1 trials
Brief motivational interview intervention Behavioral
1 trials
Patient Centered Medical Home Based Electronic Framework for Advance Care Planning Other
1 trials
Web-based advance care planning Behavioral
1 trials
Facilitated advance care planning (in-person or telephonic) Behavioral
1 trials
I kua na'u "Let Me Carry Out Your Last Wishes" Behavioral
1 trials
Mailed Resources Behavioral
1 trials
ENACT group visit Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Advance Care Planning trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Colorado 2 trials
California 2 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Ohio 1 trials
Minnesota 1 trials
Massachusetts 1 trials
Illinois 1 trials
Hawaii 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

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.

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.