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2025-12-24 @ 10:50 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2026-02-05 @ 12:36 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT02861469
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2016-08-10
First Post:
2016-08-05
Is Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
Reasons of Transfer in Emergency Units of Patients in End of Life Situation.
Sponsor:
Organization:
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The impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2010 Mar 23;340:c1345. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c1345.'}, {'pmid': '25597063', 'type': 'BACKGROUND', 'citation': 'Pennec S, Gaymu J, Monnier A, Riou F, Aubry R, Pontone S, Cases C. [The places of death of people aged 80 and over in France]. Soins Gerontol. 2014 Nov-Dec;(110):12-5. French.'}]}, 'descriptionModule': {'briefSummary': "This qualitative study aimed to describe and understand the factors leading to the admission in emergency unit of patients coming from their home, in an end of life situation.\n\nThis study was conducted in the university hospital of Besançon, France. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with general practitioners and family members in order to understand the factors leading, from their points of view, to the admission in emergency unit whereas this hospitalization wasn't necessary."}, 'eligibilityModule': {'sex': 'ALL', 'stdAges': ['ADULT', 'OLDER_ADULT'], 'minimumAge': '18 Years', 'samplingMethod': 'NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE', 'studyPopulation': '* Patients living at their home and admitted in the emergency unit of the university hospital of Besançon, who died within the 3 days following their admission in the emergency unit of a chronic disease in terminal phase.\n* General practitioners and main carers (family members or friends) of those patients.', 'healthyVolunteers': False, 'eligibilityCriteria': "Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* FOR PATIENTS :\n* aged of 18 yo or more\n* Admitted in the emergency unit of the university hospital of Besançon\n* who died within the 3 days following their admission in the emergency unit\n* who died of a chronic disease in terminal phase\n* for whom therapeutic goals were only focused on comfort\n* living at their home or at their family's home before their transfer in emergency unit\n* accompanied by at least one main carer (family member or friend) and one general practitioner during the last weeks before death\n* FOR MAIN CARERS :\n* Family members or friends of the patient\n* who were the main carers of the patient during his/her last weeks\n* speaking easily in french\n* who agreed for being interviewed and whom psychic and emotional state is compatible with a interview\n* living within 80km from Besançon\n* FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS :\n* who were the main medical actor for the patient during his/her last weeks\n* who agreed for being interviewed\n* working within 80km from Besançon\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* FOR PATIENTS :\n* Patients who expressed a wish to not die at home\n* Patients who died because of any other medical event than predictable death following the terminal phase of a chronic disease\n* minors\n* FOR MAIN CARERS AND GENERAL PRACTITIONERS :\n* refusal to participate to the interviews"}, 'identificationModule': {'nctId': 'NCT02861469', 'acronym': 'CACTUS', 'briefTitle': 'Reasons of Transfer in Emergency Units of Patients in End of Life Situation.', 'organization': {'class': 'OTHER', 'fullName': 'Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon'}, 'officialTitle': 'Reasons of Transfer in Emergency Units of Patients in End of Life Situation.', 'orgStudyIdInfo': {'id': 'P/2015/246'}}, 'armsInterventionsModule': {'armGroups': [{'label': 'Main carers', 'description': 'Individual semi-structured interviews', 'interventionNames': ['Other: Semi-structured interviews']}, {'label': 'General practitioners', 'description': 'Individual semi-structured interviews', 'interventionNames': ['Other: Semi-structured interviews']}], 'interventions': [{'name': 'Semi-structured interviews', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': 'individual semi-structured interviews with general practitioners and family members', 'armGroupLabels': ['General practitioners', 'Main carers']}]}, 'contactsLocationsModule': {'overallOfficials': [{'name': 'Régis AUBRY, Pr', 'role': 'PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR', 'affiliation': 'Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon'}]}, 'ipdSharingStatementModule': {'ipdSharing': 'NO'}, 'sponsorCollaboratorsModule': {'leadSponsor': {'name': 'Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon', 'class': 'OTHER'}, 'responsibleParty': {'type': 'SPONSOR'}}}}