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.

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age75+
SponsorCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

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

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Collecting data from the medical record

Treatment groups

100 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group