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

Bert Leysen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Primary Health Care; Palliative Care

Treatments: Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02266069

UA C130298

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 5 patient groups

Research cluster 1: Antwerp

Other group

Description:

The first Dutch-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from October 2014.

Treatment:

Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care

Research cluster 2: Mons

Other group

Description:

The first French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from November 2014.

Treatment:

Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care

Research cluster 3: Brussels

Other group

Description:

The only bilingual Dutch/French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors are implementing the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from December 2014.

Treatment:

Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care

Research cluster 4: Limburg

Other group

Description:

The second Dutch-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors will implement the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from April 2015.

Treatment:

Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care

Research cluster 5: ?

Other group

Description:

A second French-speaking research cluster in a stepped wedge cluster design. Family doctors will implement the Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care and will recruit eligible patients from October 2015.

Treatment:

Other: Care Pathway for Primary Palliative Care