Better Understand End-of-life Emergencies' Management Among Elderly in Nursing Homes: a Pilot Study in Brittany, France (PUFPAE)

Rennes University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: in End-of-life Situation; Died

Treatments: Other: end-of-life emergencies' management

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02852733

35RC12_8988

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this study are :

• To know and to understand frequency and variability (quantitative and qualitative) of end-of-life emergencies in nursing homes.
• To know and to understand practices applied in these situations depending on the institution and the different reasons of hospital use.
• To know and to understand the practical and organizational elements, in nursing homes, that can determine a (re) hospitalization or an end-of-life

Enrollment: 602 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• dead residents during the quarter preceding the date of the Survey Or
• Residents in end-of-life situation the day of the survey, as determined by the physician coordinator of nursing homes (we will use the definition of "terminal condition" contained in the guide of the CNSA (coding PATHOS - April 2011)).

Exclusion criteria

• patients opposing the study,
• patients aged below 18 year old

Trial design

602 participants in 2 patient groups

Residents in end-of-life situation

Description:

Residents in end-of-life situation the day of the survey, as determined by the physician coordinator of nursing homes (we will use the definition of "terminal condition" contained in the guide of the CNSA (coding PATHOS - April 2011)).

Treatment:

Other: end-of-life emergencies' management

dead residents

Description:

dead residents in the quarter preceding the date of the survey

Treatment:

Other: end-of-life emergencies' management