Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying at Residential Care Homes

End-of-life Care Clinical Trial

Official title:

Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying at Residential Care Homes

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01428206
• Other study ID #: LCP001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 23, 2011
• Last updated: June 13, 2013
• Start date: June 2009
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2013
• Source: Umeå University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Sweden: Regional Ethical Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) was developed to transfer the care practice from the hospice setting to the hospital setting in UK. LCP is a pathway with standardized registration method to monitor the care and its results. The primary aim is to study the effects of LCP on dying patients symptom burden and communication with close relatives and health care professionals.

Description:

All residential care homes in Skellefteå municipality are included in the study and randomized either to control or intervention group. During the baseline period the care is provided as usual. During the intervention period the LCP is used for patients for whom the dying phase is diagnosed in the intervention group. Usual care is performed for the control group. After death of a patient a close relative fill in a questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 260
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• nursing homes in Skellefteå municipality, Sweden

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• End-of-life Care

Intervention

Other:
• Liverpool care pathway
Liverpool care pathway is started tha last day in life for elderly at nursing homes

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Skellefteå municipality	Skellefteå	Västerbotten

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Umeå University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	quality of care	changes between the groups about values of symptom scores on the Edmonton assessment scale (ESAS) and the views of informal carers-evaluation of services (VOICES)assessed by close relative	one month to six months after the relatives death	Yes
Secondary	place of death	changes between the groups	the time of death	Yes
Secondary	drug consumption		the last three days before death	Yes