Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT02822690 |
| Other study ID # |
2016pz/1 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
October 2016 |
| Est. completion date |
June 2019 |
Study information
| Verified date |
April 2024 |
| Source |
University Medical Center Groningen |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
The aim of this study is to get insight in the quality of life at the end of life and quality
of dying for patients died at the hospital in the department Groningen (the Netherlands).
The primary endpoint is the quality of life at the end of life and the secondary endpoint is
the quality of dying. Both according a numerical rating scale.
An explorative analysis will be done for differences for the hospitals in Groningen, effect
of using the Liverpool care Pathway for the dying, effect of using consultation by the
palliative consultation team, effect of using the Hospice@UMCG intervention, correlation with
the quality of life at the end of life and quality of dying according to nurses and doctors.
Description:
Three hospitals in the department Groningen (the Netherlands) will participate in this study.
When a patient died in one of these hospitals (except the emergency department, child ward
and intensive care unit) the bereaved relatives will get an information letter. After about
12 weeks a questionnaire will be sent to the bereaved relative. This questionnaire is
developed to evaluate the end of life care at the hospital.
Shortly after the patient died at the hospital, also the nurse and doctor of this patient are
requested to fill out a questionnaire.
The questionnaire for the bereaved relatives consists of items, divided in groups: a general
part, followed by questions of the last days of life, existing symptoms (physical,
psychological, existential and social), the care and treatment and the loss.
The questionnaire for the nurses exists of similar items. Special attention for recognizing
the impending dying and problems, care and therapy at the end of life.
In all questionnaires there are also 2 main questions: What is your opinion of the quality of
life during the last days of life and What is your opinion of the quality of dying.
In the three hospitals the end of life care is managed at somehow different ways: the use of
the Liverpool care Pathway of the dying, the hospice@UMCG intervention and consultation by
the palliative team of the hospital.
