Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) was developed to transfer the care practice from the hospice setting to the hospital setting in UK. LCP is a pathway with standardized registration method to monitor the care and its results. The primary aim is to study the effects of LCP on dying patients symptom burden and communication with close relatives and health care professionals.
All residential care homes in Skellefteå municipality are included in the study and randomized either to control or intervention group. During the baseline period the care is provided as usual. During the intervention period the LCP is used for patients for whom the dying phase is diagnosed in the intervention group. Usual care is performed for the control group. After death of a patient a close relative fill in a questionnaire.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
260
Liverpool care pathway is started tha last day in life for elderly at nursing homes
Skellefteå municipality
Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
quality of care
changes between the groups about values of symptom scores on the Edmonton assessment scale (ESAS) and the views of informal carers-evaluation of services (VOICES)assessed by close relative
Time frame: one month to six months after the relatives death
place of death
changes between the groups
Time frame: the time of death
drug consumption
Time frame: the last three days before death
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