The effect of using telehealth to train residential aged care facility staff in delivery of palliative care to residents on the rate of unplanned hospitalisation admissions and quality of end-of-life care
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Palliative careEnd of life carePublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622000760774
- Lead Sponsor
- ational Ageing Research Institute
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2250
Inclusion Criteria
Residents: All residents living permanently in the participating RACFs will be eligible to take part in this research.
Family members or friends of eligible residents, including families of residents who die during the study and wish to take part in the post-death survey.
GPs, RACF senior nurses and clinical care coordinators liaising with or working within the participating RACFs will be eligible to participate.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Rate of unplanned hospitalisations per 1000 bed days of aged care residents extracted from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset[ 6 months prior to the active intervention (pre-trial), and every 6 months until 6 months after the final cluster has been randomised]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method