Clinical Characteristics and Discharge Assessment of Patients From Palliative Care

Completed

• Conditions: Critical Illness
• Interventions: Other: Prolonged discharge; Other: Discharged ≤ 21 days

• Registration Number: NCT04755374
• Lead Sponsor: Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

Brief Summary

The number of people having chronic diseases and the demand for palliative care has increased. The factors that have an impact on length of stay and discharge of patient who were admitted to palliative care center will be investigated.

Detailed Description

Adult patients admitted to the Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Teaching and Research Hospitals Palliative Care Unit between August 2018 and September 2020 and discharged to their home will be retrospectively evaluated.

Patient's age, gender, diagnosis, conditions/comorbidities, Karnofsky Performance Scale, discharge status (death, intensive care unit or at home), gastrostomy status, presence of tracheostomy and/or mechanical ventilation, nutritional status (total parenteral nutrition or enteral nutrition), pressure ulcers, the lowest and highest recorded hemoglobin concentration, white blood cell count and serum sodium concentration and the education level of the patient and the caregiver will be recorded. Patients will be grouped according to length of stay (LOS) as Group 1: discharged in equal or less than 21 days or Group 2: Prolonged discharged in longer than 21 days and analysed accordingly

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2021-02
• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-11
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-16
• Study Start: 2021-02-20
• Primary Completion: 2021-03-20
• Study Completion: 2021-04-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-07-09
• Last Update Posted: 2021-07-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 103

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patients admitted to the palliative care unit

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients not consenting to participate the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group 2: Prolonged discharged in longer than 21 days	Prolonged discharge	Discharged from palliative care unit in longer than 21 days
Group 1	Discharged ≤ 21 days	Discharged from palliative care unit in equal or less than 21 days

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Length of stay	24 hours after discharge	Length of stay will be determined after discharge

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Teaching and Research Hospital; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Turkey