How is the Term 'Harm' Being Interpreted and Documented on Hospice DNACPR Forms Following the Tracey Judgement?

NCT ID: NCT03195725

Last Updated: 2019-06-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-07-24

Study Completion Date

2018-10-31

Brief Summary

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To investigate how discussions surrounding Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions have changed following the Tracey judgement and how "harm" is being defined by clinicians working within specialist palliative care in a hospice setting.

Detailed Description

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This is a retrospective case note review. Five hospices within the West Midlands will be invited to participate and up to 300 sets of deceased patients' notes containing a DNACPR form will be reviewed; 150 from 2013 (prior to the Tracey judgement) and 150 from 2015 (following the Tracey judgement).

Initially these forms will be reviewed to document the percentage of patients with whom a DNACPR decision was discussed in 2013 and the percentage with whom it was discussed in 2015 to allow comparison from before the Tracey judgement and after the Tracey judgement.

If patients did NOT have DNACPR decisions discussed with them, their DNACPR forms and clinical notes will then be reviewed and the reasons documented for not involving patients in 2013 and in 2015 compared. It is anticipated that many, if not most, DNACPR decisions which were not discussed with patients in 2013 will cite "distress" as the reason but following the Tracey judgement this would not be acceptable in 2015.

Further analysis of DNACPR forms and clinical notes will then take place for those patients identified as not being involved in DNACPR discussions in 2015 (post-Tracey) to identify whether, and how, "harm" was defined by the clinician. This should be recorded on the DNACPR form or in the clinical notes.

Following data collection, quantitative analysis will be undertaken to allow comparison of percentages of DNACPR decisions discussed with patients in 2013 and 2015 followed by descriptive analysis of variation in reasons for not discussing DNACPR decisions in 2013 and 2015. This study is explorative in nature and further qualitative analysis will not be part of this research project.

Conditions

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Year 2013

Participant's notes will be reviewed from the year 2013

Review of notes

Intervention Type OTHER

No intervention will occur

Year 2015

Participant's notes will be reviewed from the year 2015

Review of notes

Intervention Type OTHER

No intervention will occur

Interventions

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Review of notes

No intervention will occur

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients who died in 2013 or 2015 known to the individual hospice team (in-patient unit, day unit or community team)
* Completed DNACPR form within the clinical notes which was completed in 2013 or 2015

Exclusion Criteria

* No completed DNACPR form within the clinical notes
* DNACPR form not completed in 2013 or 2015
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Compton Hospice

Wolverhampton, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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2017PAL94

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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