Improving End-of-life Care by Continuing Medical Education and Electronic Decision Making Support for General Practitioners
Improving End-of-life Care by Continuing Medical Education and Electronic Decision Making Support for General Practitioners in Denmark - an Intervention Study
Background: Optimizing the basic palliative care has been shown beneficial to patients in end-of-life care, the general practitioner (GP) having a pivotal role in the health care system, providing comprehensive and continued medical care.
The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of a complex intervention in general practice on GPs' awareness of and confidence in providing end-of-life care.
Method: A follow-up study among 404 general practices in Central Denmark Region. The participating general practices will get the opportunity to receive education in palliative care and access to an electronic support, which provides advice on palliative care and an overview of the palliative population in each medical practice. The education and the support will focus on patients suffering from either metastatic cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (GOLD stage 4).
The end-of-life care delivered by the GPs to their deceased patients will be analysed, based on questionnaires to GPs and register data related to the deceased patients before and after the intervention, .
Primary outcomes: Place of death of deceased patients, time spent at home, and number of hospital admissions in the last three months of the patients' lives.
Secondary outcomes: Number and kinds of contacts between GPs and patients, use of relevant medicine and of the 'Safety Box'. Finally GPs' confidence concerning palliative care will be assessed in questionnaires.
Studieoversigt
Status
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Undersøgelsestype
Fase
- Ikke anvendelig
Kontakter og lokationer
Studiesteder
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Aarhus, Danmark, 8000
- Aarhus University
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Deltagelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
- Barn
- Voksen
- Ældre voksen
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
Working as General Practitioner in the Central Region of Denmark in 2013 and onwards
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Studieplan
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Støttende pleje
- Tildeling: N/A
- Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
- Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / Behandling |
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Andet: general practioner
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Continuing medical education and electronic decision support to General Practitioners.
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Place of death of deceased patients
Tidsramme: 1 year
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Looking at the proportion of General practitioners patients dying at home in the year following the continuing medical education meeting
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1 year
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time spent at home the last three months of the deceased patients lives
Tidsramme: 3 months
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Looking at all the deceased patients in one year following the continuing medical education meeting
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3 months
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Numbers of hospital admission the last three months of the deceased patients lives
Tidsramme: 3 months
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Looking at all the deceased patients in one year following the continuing medical education meeting
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3 months
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Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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and kinds of contacts between GPs and patients in the last three months of the deceased patients lives
Tidsramme: three months
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three months
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use of relevant medicine and of the 'Safety Box' in the last three months of the deceased patients lives
Tidsramme: three months
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three months
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GPs' confidence concerning palliative care
Tidsramme: 14 months
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assessed using questionnaire before and after the intervention
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14 months
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
Sponsor
Efterforskere
- Ledende efterforsker: Anders B. Mr Jensen, Professor, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Publikationer og nyttige links
Datoer for undersøgelser
Studer store datoer
Studiestart
Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)
Studieafslutning (Faktiske)
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først opslået (Skøn)
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidst verificeret
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Nøgleord
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- 2006802748
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