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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

NCT number NCT00495482
Other study ID # BR-14/06-1
Secondary ID BR-14/06-1
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received July 2, 2007
Last updated November 12, 2012
Start date September 2006
Est. completion date January 2010

Study information

Verified date November 2012
Source Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Germany: Ethics Commission
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.

The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 200
Est. completion date January 2010
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Age >= 18 years

- Incurable illness

- Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria:

- Somnolence

- Low mental state

- Curable disease

- Depression with danger of acute suicide

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective


Locations

Country Name City State
Germany Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig Saxonia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Patients intention to assisted suicide up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment No

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