PROject - Supportive and Palliative Care and INnOvation - Antwerp (Pro-Spinoza)
- Conditions
- Palliative CarePrimary Health Care
- Interventions
- Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care
- Registration Number
- NCT02266069
- Lead Sponsor
- Bert Leysen
- Brief Summary
It is important to provide high quality palliative care to all patients with a non-curable and life-limiting condition. The Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care (CPPPC) provides tools for health care professionals to help them delivering palliative care timely and accurately.This study investigates whether the implementation of the CPPPC really helps to improve patients' lifes.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
- identified as a palliative care patient using the Surprise Question "Would you, as a family doctor, be surprised if this patient would die in the next 12 months?". If the answer is 'no', the patient is eligible for the study.
- not having signed the informed consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Research cluster 3: Brussels Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care The only bilingual Dutch/French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from December 2014. Research cluster 1: Antwerp Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care The first Dutch-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from October 2014. Research cluster 2: Mons Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care The first French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from November 2014. Research cluster 5: ? Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care A second French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors will implement the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from October 2015. Research cluster 4: Limburg Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care The second Dutch-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors will implement the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from April 2015.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method percentage of deaths occurred in the hospital (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster) 6 months The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the percentage of deaths occurred in the hospital
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method cost of health care consumption in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster) 6 months The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the cost of health care consumption in the last year of life
consumption of antibiotics in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster) 6 months The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the consumption of antibiotics in the last year of life
consumption of pain killers in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster) 6 months The hypothesis is that the CPPPC augments the consumption of pain killers in the last year of life
consumption of (invasive) diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster) 6 months The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the consumption of (invasive) diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the last year of life
Trial Locations
- Locations (4)
Reliance
🇧🇪Mons, Hainaut, Belgium
Netwerk Palliatieve Zorg Limburg
🇧🇪Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
Palliatieve Hulpverlening Antwerpen
🇧🇪Antwerp, Belgium
Palliabru
🇧🇪Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium