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Better Understand End-of-life Emergencies' Management Among Elderly in Nursing Homes: a Pilot Study in Brittany, France

NCT02852733 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 602

Last updated 2016-08-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purposes of this study are :

* To know and to understand frequency and variability (quantitative and qualitative) of end-of-life emergencies in nursing homes.
* To know and to understand practices applied in these situations depending on the institution and the different reasons of hospital use.
* To know and to understand the practical and organizational elements, in nursing homes, that can determine a (re) hospitalization or an end-of-life

Conditions

  • Died
  • in End-of-life Situation

Interventions

OTHER

end-of-life emergencies' management

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rennes University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francoise FR RIOU, MD · Rennes University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-02-28
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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