Do we Prepare Patients for Their Digital Legacy? A Survey of Palliative Care Professionals in the West Midlands

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Death

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03092258

2017PAL90

Details and patient eligibility

About

Conduct a questionnaire survey of palliative care professionals including doctors, nurses and social workers currently working within the West Midlands to establish how much the palliative care community in the West Midlands engage in preparing patients for their digital legacy and find out if there is a further education need in this community about digital legacy.

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Palliative care professionals (medical, nursing and social worker) affiliated to a hospice in the West Midlands.

Exclusion criteria

• Medical, nursing or social worker not working in a hospice in the West Midlands.