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Romanian-Swiss Research Programme IZERZO

NCT03237884 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 308

Last updated 2017-08-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Palliative Care procedures should be integrated early in the course of disease of patients with advanced incurable cancer. With this study, where the investigators follow adult patients with incurable cancer over 6 months or until death (whatever occurs earlier), the investigators aim to identify patients' needs for Palliative Care interventions (like support in illness understanding and decision making, symptom management, concrete end-of-life preparation, and others) and their remembered delivery by health care professionals. The investigators also collect data on patients care (use of chemotherapy, intensive care in the last month of life) and quality of death and dying (assessed by post-death-interviews with bereaved relatives). The aim is to have a "reality map" on current integration of oncology and palliative care and to test if appropriate Palliative Care interventions predict a better outcome.

Conditions

  • Advanced Incurable Cancer

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Florian Strasser, MD · Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-01
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Romania
  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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