CAre of Patients With PArenteral Nutrition At Home

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Diarrhea; Intestinal Lymphomas; Radiation Enteritis; Crohn's Disease; Peritoneal Carcinomatosis With Intestinal Occlusion

• Registration Number: NCT01545063
• Lead Sponsor: KU Leuven

Brief Summary

This research aims to give an overview of a number of aspects related to the quality of care for adult patients on home parenteral nutrition.

Concretely this study follows up different aspects on different moments in the care of the patient pathways:

* process indicators concerning indication, parenteral nutrition, training, team access roads and the succession of complications

* Outcome indicators

* the health-related quality of life

* discrepancies in medication use

* the role of the different health care providers

Detailed Description

Adult patients on HPN will be contacted by phone at three different time moments after their discharge to ask them about indicators, quality of life and discrepancies in medication use. After the follow-up, medical dossiers will be consulted to know which indicators are followed in practice.

The role of the different health care providers will be investigated by face-to-face interviews with different healthcare professionals.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-03-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-03-05
• Study First Posted: 2012-03-06
• Study Start: 2012-05
• Primary Completion: 2013-04
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 39

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients in Flanders who speak Dutch, are older then 18 years and are able to give an informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who are younger then 18 years.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life	2 years	Quality of life will be investigated with the HPN-QoL(r) or FACIT-G (r).
Number of catheter related infections	2 years

Trial Locations

Locations (13)

Hasselt Jessa Ziekenhuizen; 🇧🇪 Hasselt, Belgium

Heilig Hart vzw; 🇧🇪 Roeselare Menen, Belgium

UZ Gent; 🇧🇪 Gent, Belgium

Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg; 🇧🇪 Genk, Belgium

Catholic University; 🇧🇪 Leuven, Belgium

AZ Damiaan; 🇧🇪 Oostende, Belgium

AZ Sint Lucas en Volkskliniek; 🇧🇪 Gent, Belgium

Antwerpen Middelheim; 🇧🇪 Antwerpen, Belgium

UZA Antwerpen Edegem; 🇧🇪 Antwerpen, Belgium

Imelda Ziekenhuizen Bonheide; 🇧🇪 Bonheiden, Belgium

AZ Sint-Lucas; 🇧🇪 Brugge, Belgium

University Centrum Brussel; 🇧🇪 Brussel, Belgium

AZ Sint Blasius Dendermonde; 🇧🇪 Dendermonde, Belgium