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Palliative Care: early-phase trial registry
6 of 19 indexed Palliative Care trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.
Corpus placement: #902 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.
19 US clinical trials · 6 currently recruiting · #902 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count
Palliative Care: 19 US clinical trials tracked, 6 recruiting.
Palliative Care is the subject of 19 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 6 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, running 2 of these trials.
Enrollment posture brief
Registry condition palliative-care
OPEN 6 | RECR 32% | LATE 0 | EARLY 1 | RANK #902 | SPON 2
Volume-matched condition peers
Nearest open-share peer: Back Pain (32% recruiting · 38 trials)
Palliative Care lists 6 open slots (32% of 19 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 Palliative Care 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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Palliative Care is recruiting below its size-band peers.
6 of 19 indexed trials (31.6%) 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 Palliative Care trials is spread across many organizations.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute accounts for 2 of 19 trials (10.5%). 15 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.
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Typical Palliative Care enrolment sits around 120 participants.
Median target enrolment is 120 among the 19 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 7 of those (36.8%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.
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Palliative Care research is mostly interventional.
18 interventional and 1 observational studies make up this index (94.7% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Open and recent trials
19 total, page 1 of 1
Annual Wellness Visits vs GRACE-augmented Annual Wellness Visits For Older Adults With High Needs - Phase 2
Massachusetts General Hospital
NCT07166861
Comparing the Stanford Letter Project Form to Traditional Advance Directives
Stanford University
NCT02799537
Improving Needs Among Older Adults
Duke University
NCT06588556
Patient-centered, Optimal Integration of Survivorship and Palliative Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
NCT04900935
E-Tailored Pain Management Support for Dementia Family Caregivers: Feasibility of the PACE-app
University of Iowa
NCT07032350
Resiniferatoxin to Treat Severe Pain Associated With Advanced Cancer
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
NCT00804154
A Pragmatic Trial of an Active Choice Nudge for Generalist or Specialist Palliative Care for Seriously Ill Inpatients
University of Pennsylvania
NCT05502861
Improving Medical Decision Making for Older Patients With End Stage Renal Disease
Tufts Medical Center
NCT04347629
Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care
Boston Medical Center
NCT02750865
Apoyo Con Carino: Patient Navigation for Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Illness
University of Colorado, Denver
NCT03181750
Legacy Intervention Family Enactment (LIFE)
University of Alabama, Tuscaloo
NCT02007564
A Needs-focused Palliative Care Intervention for Older Adults in ICUs
Duke University
NCT04414787
Feasibility Of An Advanced Care Decision Aid Among Patients And Physicians_Matlock
University of Colorado, Denver
NCT01190488
The PediQUEST Study: Evaluation of Pediatric Quality of Life and Evaluation of Symptoms Technology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
NCT01838564
With Love: Using Promotoras for a Hispanic Community Palliative Care Promotora Palliative Care
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso
NCT03736031
Post-ICU Palliative Care Intervention (PIPCI) Trial
Columbia University
NCT03456323
Home-Based Palliative Care Impact on Providers
University of Southern California
NCT06140004
Standardized Patient-Centered Medication Review in Home Hospice
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
NCT03972163
STAMP+CBT mHealth for Cancer Pain
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
NCT05403801
Phase Distribution
| Phase | Trial count |
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| Phase 1 | 1 |
Top Sponsors
Named interventions
Most-linked intervention names on Palliative Care records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.
US sites by state
Facility locations filed on Palliative Care 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 Palliative Care page
19 registered trials, 6 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.
- 6 Palliative Care trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sponsors the most Palliative Care trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Dana-Farber Cancer Institute'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 Palliative Care condition card totals 19 registered trials; most-linked intervention Patient Navigator Intervention Group; top US site state Massachusetts. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.