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Study NCT ID:
NCT02050256
Status:
WITHDRAWN
Last Update Posted:
2014-12-11
First Post:
2013-12-18
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
Improving End-of-life Care by Continuing Medical Education and Electronic Decision Making Support for General Practitioners
Sponsor:
Organization:
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The education and the support will focus on patients suffering from either metastatic cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (GOLD stage 4).\n\nThe end-of-life care delivered by the GPs to their deceased patients will be analysed, based on questionnaires to GPs and register data related to the deceased patients before and after the intervention, .\n\nPrimary outcomes: Place of death of deceased patients, time spent at home, and number of hospital admissions in the last three months of the patients' lives.\n\nSecondary outcomes: Number and kinds of contacts between GPs and patients, use of relevant medicine and of the 'Safety Box'. 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