Optimal care at the end of life
- Conditions
- Patients with life-limiting, chronic progressive oncological and non-oncological diseases, being in general practitioners care in the chosen Region.
- Registration Number
- DRKS00015108
- Lead Sponsor
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 127
a. General practitioners
Located GPs in targeted region, who are registered in the region within the duration of the project (independent by sex)
b. Deceased patients of targeted GPs practice
Deceased as a result of life-limiting, chronic progressive oncological and non-oncological diseases within period of observation and while in GPs care, age > 18 (independent of sex)
c. Remained relatives of deceased patients in GPs practice
Age > 18 and direct contact to deceased patient in the last phase of life (independent of sex)
d. Stakeholder in health region
Employed at least 1 year at interface to GPs practice (nursing service, nursing homes, hospitals, surgery) (independent of sex)
e. Health insurance data
Patient deceased as a result of life-limiting, chronic progressive oncological and non-oncological diseases within ZIP-Code of the targeted Region in 2016/2017 (t=0) or 2019/2020 (t=1), continuously assured, age > 18 (independent of sex)
b. and e.: Sudden death, which is not related to a life-limiting, chronic progressive oncological and non-oncological disease (e.g. traffic accident, heart attack without diagnosis of coronary heart disease)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method a.) Optimized care at the end of life- General practitioners perspective: GP-EoLC-I, written survey of the project’s general practitioners – Dimensions: clinical practice of the general practitioners, organization of palliative care (t=0 six months pre interventionem, t=1 six month post-interventionem) <br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method