Sense of Security With Access to Palliative Outpatient Clinic
ConditionCancer
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-120
SponsorRegion Skane
About this trial
The aim of the study is to evaluate experience of security, accessibility, and avoidable utilization of health care services in patients who have had access to specialized palliative care clinic (SPCC) compared to those who have not, and to evaluate the relatives' experience of the care.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
Patients with cognitive impairment
Patients who cannot fill in a questionnaire in Swedish, Arabic or Serbo-Croatian.
Trial population
Patients who have hade access to specialized palliative outpatient clinic. As a control group patients who not have had contact with specialized palliative outpatient clinic woill be included. Patients with all kind of diagnoses and symtoms that require care at ASiH and specialized palliative outpatient clinic can be included.
Trial design
Design model
Case-control
Time perspective
Retrospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
200 Participants
are grouped into 1 trial groupGroup A: Access to Specialized palliative outpatient clinic
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Experience of security and continuity
Likert scale, 5-point scale where a higher value indicates higher sense of security and continuity.
Time frame
3 monthsSecondary outcomes
1
Avoidable care consumption
Actual number of avoidable contacts with health care system (e.g., emergency department). Data will be collected by Region Skånes Vårddatabaser
Time frame
3 months2
Readmissions to hospital.
Actual numbers of readmission. Data will be collected by Region Skånes Vårddatabaser
Time frame
3 monthsSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov