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Increasing the Number of Patients Receiving Information About Transition to End-of-life Care

17. marts 2014 opdateret af: Umeå University

Increasing the Number of Patients Receiving Information About Transition to End-of-life Care: the Effect of a Half-day Physician and Nurse Training

Introduction: Honest prognostication and information for patients are important parts of end-of-life care. This study examined whether an educational intervention could increase the proportion of patients who received information about the transition to end-of-life care (ITEOL).

Method: Two municipalities (in charge of nursing homes) and two hospitals were randomized to receive an interactive half-day course about ITEOL for physicians and nurses. The proportion of patients who received ITEOL was measured with data from the Swedish Register of Palliative Care (SRPC). Patients were only included if they died an expected death and maintained their ability to express their will until days or hours before their death. Four hospitals and four municipalities were assigned controls, matched by hospital size, population, and proportion of patients receiving ITEOL at baseline.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

1431

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

      • Umeå, Sverige, SE-901 87
        • Umeå University, Dept of radiation sciences

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Hospitals and municipalities: Participation in the Swedish Register of Palliative Care.
  • Patients: Reported from an included hospital or municipality during six months before to six months after intervention.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Hospitals and municipalities: Exclusion criteria were more than 40% patients receiving ITEOL at start of study, too large for an intervention due to practical reasons (university hospitals or municipalities with over 100 000 inhabitants), and hospitals not containing both internal medicine and surgery departments.
  • Patients were excluded when death was unexpected, when a forensic post mortem examination was performed, or when the patients had lost their ability to express their will and take part in decisions concerning the content of medical care one week or more before death.

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Ingen indgriben: Ingen indgriben
Ingen indgriben.
Andet: Educative intervention
Two municipalities (in charge of nursing homes) and two hospitals were randomized to receive an interactive half-day course about ITEOL for physicians and nurses.
Two municipalities (in charge of nursing homes) and two hospitals were randomized to receive an interactive half-day course about ITEOL for physicians and nurses.

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
The proportion of patients who received ITEOL
Tidsramme: Six months after intervention
The proportion of patients who received ITEOL was measured with data from the Swedish Register of Palliative Care (SRPC). Six months after the intervention data were collected from the SRPC for all patients who had died at the included hospitals and municipalities. Data were collected from six months before the intervention to six months after the intervention. The outcome was compared before and after the intervention.
Six months after intervention

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Sponsor

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Bertil Axelsson, MD PhD, Umeå University

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. august 2011

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. oktober 2012

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. oktober 2012

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

13. marts 2014

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

17. marts 2014

Først opslået (Skøn)

19. marts 2014

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

19. marts 2014

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

17. marts 2014

Sidst verificeret

1. marts 2014

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • Intervention-sv-pall

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