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Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying at Residential Care Homes

NCT01428206 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 260

Last updated 2013-06-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) was developed to transfer the care practice from the hospice setting to the hospital setting in UK. LCP is a pathway with standardized registration method to monitor the care and its results. The primary aim is to study the effects of LCP on dying patients symptom burden and communication with close relatives and health care professionals.

Conditions

  • End-of-life Care

Interventions

OTHER

Liverpool care pathway

Liverpool care pathway is started tha last day in life for elderly at nursing homes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Umeå University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Margareta Brännström, PhD · Department of nursing, Umeå University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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