Incurable Cancer Diseases Clinical Trial
— ESPILOfficial title:
Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony
Verified date | November 2012 |
Source | Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | Germany: Ethics Commission |
Study type | Observational |
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."
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 |
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective
Country | Name | City | State |
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Germany | Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH | Leipzig | Saxonia |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH |
Germany,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Patients intention to assisted suicide | up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment | No |