Introducing the Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool in Family Medicine

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

149 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-09-30

Study Completion Date

2018-06-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to pilot the introduction of a newly developed palliative care tool to clinicians in a family health team. The intent of the tool is to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of palliative care, which effects caregiver and patient satisfaction with care received, as well as clinician satisfaction with their delivery of care. Tool effectiveness will be evaluated by measuring satisfaction scores of caregivers, patients and clinicians who receive training and access to the tool compared to caregivers, patients and clinicians providing usual care (without the tool). Uptake of the tool and user feedback will be collected

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Detailed Description

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A newly developed tool to guide clinicians in best palliative care practices was developed based on a combination of published tools and consultation with primary care, end users (clinicians). The tool will be introduced as a pilot to clinicians who will receive training on use of the tool and access to the tool within a family health team in Ontario, Canada. The tool will be applied in a controlled study environment that randomly assigns clinicians to one of two groups. One group will receive training and access to the tool and the other group of clinicians will continue to provide usual care.The tool will be evaluated based on validated satisfaction surveys completed by caregivers, patients and clinicians. Satisfaction scores of those randomly assigned to care enhanced by the tool will be compared to those receiving usual care at the beginning and end of the study. Uptake of the tool will be measured, as well as user experience with the tool (feasibility and acceptability)

Conditions

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Palliative Care Primary Care Satisfaction

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Pilot prospective randomized controlled trial

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Patients and caregivers are blinded as to whether their clinician received training and access to the newly introduced comprehensive palliative care tool. Clinicians delivering care are not blinded to use of the tool, outcome assessors are not blinded to the data

Study Groups

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Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Clinicians within the study will be randomly assigned and trained on the use of the Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Intervention Type OTHER

Clinicians assigned to the newly developed Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool will be trained during a 1 hour period on the application of the tool; Including rationale for tool development, objective of the tool and demonstration of the tool in action

Usual Care

Clinicians within the study will be randomly assigned to usual palliative care (without the newly introduced tool)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Clinicians assigned to the newly developed Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool will be trained during a 1 hour period on the application of the tool; Including rationale for tool development, objective of the tool and demonstration of the tool in action

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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PaCCT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Inclusive sample of all clinicians employed at Stonechurch Family Health Centre
* Inclusive sample of all patients over 18 years of age, registered as palliative within Stonechurch Family Health Centre and who are English speaking