Therapeutic Intervention Code in a Cognitive Geriatric Unit

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The diagnostic and therapeutic progresses, associated with modifications in lifestyle and socio-cultural level of populations, have led to a remarkable increase in life expectancy. At the same time, the increasing medicalization of the individual has eroded the traditional boundaries between health and illness, normal and pathological state. This leads to the patient losing his sense of ownership of his own death. If most patients died at home before the Second World War, 75% of the population dies in hospital or institution at the present date.

Most hospitals and care institutions have developed codes, in multidisciplinary internal consultation, to address the interruption or lack of implementation of treatments that make no sense from a medical point of vue. This avoids therapeutic relentlessness.The code in place within the CHU Brugmann is:

- code A: no therapeutic restriction

- code B: not to be resuscitated

- code C: not to be intensively treated (no escalation in therapeutic treatments)

- code D: best palliative care (progressive de-escalation in therapeutic treatments).

These codes are established in consultation with the patient or his legal representative and are re-evaluated in a multidisciplinary way every week.

Planning a care path and therefore establishing a therapeutic code is particularly important for people with cognitive impairment and dementia because the progressive loss of cognitive abilities complicates the process of decision making.

A large part of the admissions are made via the emergency department. For these patients, no therapeutic plan has been established beforehand. However, the perception of the functional and cognitive status of the patient directly influences the intensity of care provided. Cognitive disorders are a risk factor for the exclusion of access to palliative care for the elderly patient.

The objectives of this study are:

- To establish a record of the therapeutic limitation codes in an acute cognitive geriatric unit

- To correlate the therapeutic limitation code with the comorbidities of the patients

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03408028
Study type	Observational
Source	Brugmann University Hospital
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	April 1, 2017
Completion date	October 1, 2017

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