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Quality of the End of Life Care

NCT02775825 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2016-05-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

End-of life care is one of the principle components of cancer care. Measurement of the quality of care provided for end-of-life cancer patients is an important issue. Recently there has been an increased emphasis on measuring and monitoring the quality of cancer care for the purpose of improving clinical practice. Despite increasing attention paid to end-of-life care in recent years, many studies have described difficulties in the final phase of life, including problems with access to hospice, inadequate symptom management, care giving burdens, care mismatched with patient preferences, and inappropriate resource use. Measuring quality of life is an important issue for monitoring clinical practice and improving outcome. Although patient assessment is the best quality measure, it is impractical to measure the quality of end-of-life care because of the difficulties of accurate prognostication for end-of-life and many patients are too ill to provide assessments. In contrast, several recent studies developed quality indicators (QIs) of palliative and end-of-life care, which assess the quality from existing sources such as administrative data or medical chart data.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

survey

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Guard Health Affairs

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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