Palliative Care Clinical Trial
— GerPal-IDOfficial title:
Identification of Elderly Patients in Need of Palliative Care by Family Physicians - the Role of Palliative Care Training and the Use of a Standardized Tool (GerPal_ID). A Two-phase Protocol: Randomized Trial and Prevalence Study
Verified date | October 2022 |
Source | University of Beira Interior |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
In the last decades, the number of people living with chronic diseases had increased, mainly due to the aging of the population. Such chronic, progressive, life threatening and burdening diseases, play an important role in this new era of palliative care. Despite the growing scientific and social interest in palliative care, there is still a delay in the identification of patients with palliative care needs. This leads to a late integration in a palliative care network and consequent deprivation of the major advantages of an early and progressive integration. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of palliative care training and the use of a structured tool, in the identification of the elderly population in need of palliative care by family physicians. And also to conduct a prevalence study to further the knowledge about how many elder people in primary care have the need of a palliative care approach.
Status | Withdrawn |
Enrollment | 0 |
Est. completion date | December 30, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | December 29, 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - GPs (fellows and specialists) from Center Healthcare Administrative Region Exclusion Criteria: - Previous palliative care training. - Refuse to participate |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Portugal | Center Healthcare Administrative Region | Coimbra |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Beira Interior |
Portugal,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | GPs' rate of identification of patients with palliative care needs | Each GP will have to identify, before each intervention, from a set of fictitious clinical cases constructed for this purpose, which patients need palliative care. After each intervention, they will re-evaluate the same clinical cases and will be asked to identify again which patients need palliative care.
Each intervention will be measured according to the identification accuracy. |
2 weeks | |
Primary | Prevalence geriatric patients with palliative care needs | Number (% of patients) of geriatric patients, managed in primary care in Center Healthcare Administrative Region, with palliative care needs. | 6 months | |
Primary | Sociodemographic characteristics of geriatric patients with palliative care needs | Age (in years), sex (male or female), marital status (single, married, divorced, widow, marriage) and job of geriatric patients, managed in primary care in Center Healthcare Administrative Region, with palliative care needs. | 6 months | |
Primary | Clinical characteristics of geriatric patients with palliative care need | Main diseases, main symptoms, number of contacts with GP/year of geriatric patients, managed in primary care in Center Healthcare Administrative Region, with palliative care needs. | 6 months | |
Primary | Complexity of geriatric patients with palliative care need | Complexity of of geriatric patients, managed in primary care in Center Healthcare Administrative Region, with palliative care needs, evaluated using ICD-Pal tool | 6 months |
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