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Identification of Elderly Patients in Need of Palliative Care by Family Physicians

NCT04010136 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2022-11-02

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Summary

In the last decades, the number of people living with chronic diseases had increased, mainly due to the aging of the population. Such chronic, progressive, life threatening and burdening diseases, play an important role in this new era of palliative care.

Despite the growing scientific and social interest in palliative care, there is still a delay in the identification of patients with palliative care needs. This leads to a late integration in a palliative care network and consequent deprivation of the major advantages of an early and progressive integration.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of palliative care training and the use of a structured tool, in the identification of the elderly population in need of palliative care by family physicians. And also to conduct a prevalence study to further the knowledge about how many elder people in primary care have the need of a palliative care approach.

Conditions

  • Palliative Care
  • Primary Health Care
  • Geriatrics

Interventions

OTHER

Palliative care training

Intervention will consist on providing different types of palliative care training to identify the most accurate on improving GPs' identification of palliative care patients skills

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Beira Interior

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos Seiça Cardoso, MD · Faculty of Health Science - University of Beira Interior

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-11-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-29
Completion
2021-12-30

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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