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Hospice and End-of-life Symptom Monitoring & Support Using an Automated System Designed for Family Caregivers

NCT02112461 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 365

Last updated 2017-05-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Improving end-of-life care and the suffering caused by poorly controlled symptoms is an important public health concern. The development of an automated telephone symptom monitoring and support system that assists caregivers in providing end-of-life care and communicating information to the patient's hospice nurse has the potential to enhance the management of common end of life symptoms, thus reducing the suffering of patients at end of life as well as the suffering of their family caregivers. This study has developed such a system and is testing the effectiveness of this system.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SCP-Hospice Alert

The intervention in Project 1 SCP utilizes a multi-faceted system. The SCP-Hospice symptom management model will include several features: 1) a computer-based telecommunication system to monitor symptoms as perceived and reported by the family caregiver; 2) tailored care management messages that SCP provides directly to the caregivers to promote care management based on the individualized patient symptom profile and caregiver distress; and 3) an automated alerting function that notifies the hospice nurse of unrelieved symptoms that have exceeded a pre-set threshold.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kathleen H Mooney, PhD · University of Utah

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2017-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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