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End of Life clinical trials
4 of 11 indexed End of Life trials are currently recruiting.
Corpus placement: #1,577 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.
11 US clinical trials · 4 currently recruiting · #1,577 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count
End of Life: 11 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.
End of Life is the subject of 11 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is Stanford University, running 2 of these trials.
Enrollment posture brief
Registry condition end-of-life
OPEN 4 | RECR 36% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #1577 | SPON 2
Volume-matched condition peers
Nearest open-share peer: Blast Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive (36% recruiting · 11 trials)
End of Life lists 4 open slots (36% of 11 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 End of Life 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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End of Life is recruiting below its size-band peers.
4 of 11 indexed trials (36.4%) 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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One sponsor concentrates End of Life research.
Stanford University accounts for 2 of 11 trials (18.2%). 10 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.
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Typical End of Life enrolment sits around 160 participants.
Median target enrolment is 160 among the 11 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 5 of those (45.5%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.
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End of Life research is mostly interventional.
10 interventional and 1 observational studies make up this index (90.9% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Open and recent trials
11 total, page 1 of 1
Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Two Supportive Cancer Care Delivery Models for Adults With Cancer
Stanford University
NCT05297734
Embedded Palliative Care in the MICU
Washington University School of Medicine
NCT06574672
Palliative Care Education in Assisted Living for Dementia Care Providers (PCEAL-DCP)
University of South Florida
NCT06722352
Evaluation of the Acceptability, Appropriateness, and Feasibility/Usability of a Metastatic Breast-cancer Specific Prognostic Calculator Among Clinicians
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCT05440929
Wishes to Improve Support and Humanity at End-of-life in Safety-net Hospitals
University of California, Los Angeles
NCT06277310
Feasibility of the Comfort Measures Only Time Out (CMOT)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
NCT05861323
Better Real-time Information on Documentation of Goals of Care for Engagement in Serious Illness Communication
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
NCT07147023
Study of Poetic Dignity Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients With Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
NCT06293456
Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share
Stanford University
NCT03699748
Conducting Perioperative Code Status and Goals of Care Discussions: A Bi-Institutional Study to Develop a Novel, Evidence-Based Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees
Brigham and Women's Hospital
NCT04045886
Virtual Reality at End-of-life
State University of New York at Buffalo
NCT06149429
Phase Distribution
Phase data not available
Top Sponsors
Named interventions
Most-linked intervention names on End of Life records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.
US sites by state
Facility locations filed on End of Life 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 End of Life page
11 registered trials, 4 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.
- 4 End of Life trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
- Stanford University sponsors the most End of Life trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Stanford University'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 End of Life condition card totals 11 registered trials; most-linked intervention Personalized virtual reality experience; top US site state Massachusetts. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.