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Chronic Illness clinical trials

1 of 6 indexed Chronic Illness trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #2,866 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

6 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #2,866 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Chronic Illness: 6 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Chronic Illness is the subject of 6 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is University of Alabama at Birmingham, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition chronic-illness

OPEN 1 | RECR 17% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #2866 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Renal Failure (17% recruiting · 6 trials)

Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory 66.7%Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms50%Acupuncture50%Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia50%Chronic Illness (this)17%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness lists 1 open slots (17% of 6 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 Chronic Illness 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. Chronic Illness is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    1 of 6 indexed trials (16.7%) 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. One sponsor concentrates Chronic Illness research.

    University of Alabama at Birmingham accounts for 2 of 6 trials (33.3%). 5 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Chronic Illness enrolment sits around 300 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 300 among the 6 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 3 of those (50%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Chronic Illness research is mostly interventional.

    6 interventional and 0 observational studies make up this index (100% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Named interventions

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

Collaborative Chronic Illness Care Model Behavioral
1 trials
videoconferencing Other
1 trials
Med Complex Children Intervention Other
1 trials
Adapt HF Behavioral
1 trials
UPHOLDS (Utilizing Palliative Care for Heart Failure Optimized using Lay Navigators to Decrease Suffering) Behavioral
1 trials
Table Topics (general conversation game) Other
1 trials
The Conversation Project (CP) Starter Kit Behavioral
1 trials
Hello (serious game) Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Chronic Illness trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Alabama 3 trials
Texas 2 trials
Colorado 2 trials
California 2 trials
New York 1 trials
Nevada 1 trials
Louisiana 1 trials
Georgia 1 trials

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

What to do with this Chronic Illness page

6 registered trials, 1 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 Chronic Illness condition card totals 6 registered trials; most-linked intervention Collaborative Chronic Illness Care Model; top US site state Alabama. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.