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Palliative Care Yields Cancer Wellbeing Support
Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center
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.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
1050
Start Date
2024-06-01
Completion Date
2027-08
Last Updated
2025-07-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
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.
Locations (1)
Radboudumc
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands