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Last 3 Months of Life in Home Ventilated Patients

NCT00553046 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2016-02-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To verify with a specific questionnaire, the families' perceived quality of end-of-life care and of dying in the last 3 months of life of 168 patients (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) with chronic respiratory failure needing domiciliary mechanical ventilation (MV).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

survey administration

application of a family survey on last 3 months of life for their relatives under HMV

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • michele vitacca, MD · Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-01-31
Primary Completion
2007-01-31
Completion
2007-04-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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Diseases

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