Practice Analysis of Care, Paraclinical Exams and Treatments Received by Geriatric Patients Both During the Last Week and the Last 24 Hours of Their Lives.

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: End-of-life Care

Treatments: Other: Collecting data from the medical record

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06026241

IRBN1162023/CHUSTE

Details and patient eligibility

About

End-of-life care is a core topic for geriatricians. One of the key aspects of end-of-life management is deciding when to discontinue active care measures (for example blood pressure monitoring, blood tests and X-rays) in favor of exclusive comfort care. In this retrospective observational study, the investigators looked at the care measures, treatments and paraclinical exams received by geriatric patients both one week and 24 hours before their death.

Full description

This analysis provides information on the differences in geriatric physicians' practices regarding the anticipation of the end of life, by showing on average when active care measures were stopped before death. Secondly, the investigators looked at patient criteria that could explain a prolongation of active care and a delay in the implementation of exclusive comfort care.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients over 75 years old who died in a geriatric short-stay department at Saint-Etienne University Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under 75 years old

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Patients over 75 who died in geriatrics

Description:

Patients over 75 years old who died in the geriatric short-stay departments of Saint-Etienne University Hospital

Treatment:

Other: Collecting data from the medical record