Research Into the Quality of the Dying Phase

NCT ID: NCT02822690

Last Updated: 2024-04-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-10-31

Study Completion Date

2019-06-30

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to get insight in the quality of life at the end of life and quality of dying for patients died at the hospital in the department Groningen (the Netherlands).

The primary endpoint is the quality of life at the end of life and the secondary endpoint is the quality of dying. Both according a numerical rating scale.

An explorative analysis will be done for differences for the hospitals in Groningen, effect of using the Liverpool care Pathway for the dying, effect of using consultation by the palliative consultation team, effect of using the Hospice@UMCG intervention, correlation with the quality of life at the end of life and quality of dying according to nurses and doctors.

Detailed Description

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Three hospitals in the department Groningen (the Netherlands) will participate in this study. When a patient died in one of these hospitals (except the emergency department, child ward and intensive care unit) the bereaved relatives will get an information letter. After about 12 weeks a questionnaire will be sent to the bereaved relative. This questionnaire is developed to evaluate the end of life care at the hospital.

Shortly after the patient died at the hospital, also the nurse and doctor of this patient are requested to fill out a questionnaire.

The questionnaire for the bereaved relatives consists of items, divided in groups: a general part, followed by questions of the last days of life, existing symptoms (physical, psychological, existential and social), the care and treatment and the loss.

The questionnaire for the nurses exists of similar items. Special attention for recognizing the impending dying and problems, care and therapy at the end of life.

In all questionnaires there are also 2 main questions: What is your opinion of the quality of life during the last days of life and What is your opinion of the quality of dying.

In the three hospitals the end of life care is managed at somehow different ways: the use of the Liverpool care Pathway of the dying, the hospice@UMCG intervention and consultation by the palliative team of the hospital.

Conditions

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Cessation of Life

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

FAMILY_BASED

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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University Medical Center Groningen

all patients that died on one of the wards with the exception of children; on several wards the Hospice care will be introduced as an intervention

Hospice care at UMCG

Intervention Type OTHER

introduction of hospice care facilities on the wards at the UMCG

Martini Ziekenhuis

all patients that died on one of the wards with the exception of children

No interventions assigned to this group

Ommelander ZorgGroep

all patients that died on one of the wards with the exception of children

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Hospice care at UMCG

introduction of hospice care facilities on the wards at the UMCG

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients dying in the hospital

Exclusion Criteria

* patients dying at the child ward, emergency dept. and intensive care dept.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Martini Hospital Groningen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Medical Center Groningen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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An KL Reyners, MD/PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UMCG

Locations

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University Medical Center Groningen

Groningen, , Netherlands

Site Status

Countries

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Netherlands

Other Identifiers

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2016pz/1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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