Palliative Care Yields Cancer Wellbeing Support

Summary

The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a programme for transitional palliative cancer care (Pal-Cycles) in seven countries (the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Portugal) and its consequent effects on the number of readmissions into hospital.

The main hypothesis for the study is: that fewer people in the intervention arm of the study will require hospital re admission than those having usual care.

Participants will be asked to fill in questionnaires regarding their quality of care and quality of life.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

PROCEDURE

A transitional palliative care intervention

The Pal-Cycles intervention starts just before the care transition from curative oncology care to palliative care with a goals of care conversation between a hospital care provider and the patient. The conversation will be recorded in a summary of treatment and care form which will be completed by a hospital based clinician based on the key elements of the conversation with the patient and the treatment and care plan. Afterwards a (digital) copy of the form is given to the patient and another copy is sent to the general practitioner in combination with the discharge letter.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Lancaster University

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital, Bonn

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Navarra

  collaborator OTHER

• University in Zielona Góra

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Pecs

  collaborator OTHER

• European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Universidade Católica Portuguesa

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospice Villa Speranza

  collaborator OTHER

• Radboud University Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jeroen Hasselaar · Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-01

Primary Completion

2026-10-31

Completion

2027-08-31

Countries

• Netherlands

Study Locations