PROject - Supportive and Palliative Care and INnOvation - Antwerp (Pro-Spinoza)

Bert Leysen24 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Palliative Care Primary Health Care

Interventions

Care Pathway for Primary Palliative CareOTHER

Early identification of palliative care patients, anticipatory care planning, systematic symptom assessment, interdisciplinary collaboration, rigorous follow-up of the functional status of the patient and giving attention to the informal care givers.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 45 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 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. Exclusion Criteria: * not having signed the informed consent.

Locations (4)

Reliance

Mons, Hainaut, Belgium

Netwerk Palliatieve Zorg Limburg

Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

Palliatieve Hulpverlening Antwerpen

Antwerp, Belgium

Palliabru

Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

percentage of deaths occurred in the hospital (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster)

The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the percentage of deaths occurred in the hospital

Time frame: 6 months

Secondary Outcomes

cost of health care consumption in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster)

The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the cost of health care consumption in the last year of life

Time frame: 6 months

consumption of antibiotics in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster)

The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the consumption of antibiotics in the last year of life

Time frame: 6 months

consumption of pain killers in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster)

The hypothesis is that the CPPPC augments the consumption of pain killers in the last year of life

Time frame: 6 months

consumption of (invasive) diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the last year of life (of patients per family doctor/per research cluster)

The hypothesis is that the CPPPC reduces the consumption of (invasive) diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the last year of life

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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