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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

Nearest open-share peer: Blast Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive (36% recruiting · 11 trials)

Acute Pancreatitis81.8%Acute Stroke45.5%Acquired Brain Injury36.4%End of Life (this)36%Acute Lung Injury9.1%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near End of Life

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

RECRUITING NA 2,996 participants

Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Two Supportive Cancer Care Delivery Models for Adults With Cancer

Stanford University

NCT05297734

RECRUITING NA 2,600 participants

Embedded Palliative Care in the MICU

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT06574672

RECRUITING NA 792 participants

Palliative Care Education in Assisted Living for Dementia Care Providers (PCEAL-DCP)

University of South Florida

NCT06722352

RECRUITING 15 participants

Evaluation of the Acceptability, Appropriateness, and Feasibility/Usability of a Metastatic Breast-cancer Specific Prognostic Calculator Among Clinicians

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

NCT05440929

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 900 participants

Wishes to Improve Support and Humanity at End-of-life in Safety-net Hospitals

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT06277310

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 184 participants

Feasibility of the Comfort Measures Only Time Out (CMOT)

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

NCT05861323

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Better Real-time Information on Documentation of Goals of Care for Engagement in Serious Illness Communication

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

NCT07147023

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 15 participants

Study of Poetic Dignity Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients With Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT06293456

COMPLETED NA 160 participants

Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share

Stanford University

NCT03699748

COMPLETED NA 65 participants

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

COMPLETED NA 9 participants

Virtual Reality at End-of-life

State University of New York at Buffalo

NCT06149429

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Named interventions

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

Personalized virtual reality experience Behavioral
1 trials
Online Educational Modules (Videos) Behavioral
1 trials
Lay Health Worker Intervention Behavioral
1 trials
3 Wishes Project Other
1 trials
Dignity Therapy Other
1 trials
LLM SIC Summary Email Other
1 trials
Comfort Measures Only Time out (CMOT) Behavioral
1 trials
None (Historical) Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on End of Life trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Massachusetts 3 trials
California 3 trials
New York 2 trials
Utah 1 trials
Nevada 1 trials
New Jersey 1 trials
North Carolina 1 trials
Missouri 1 trials

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

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.

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.