Introducing the Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool in Family Medicine

NCT03267706 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: PaCCT
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 149
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to pilot the introduction of a newly developed palliative care tool to clinicians in a family health team. The intent of the tool is to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of palliative care, which effects caregiver and patient satisfaction with care received, as well as clinician satisfaction with their delivery of care. Tool effectiveness will be evaluated by measuring satisfaction scores of caregivers, patients and clinicians who receive training and access to the tool compared to caregivers, patients and clinicians providing usual care (without the tool). Uptake of the tool and user feedback will be collected

Conditions

Palliative Care; Primary Care; Satisfaction

Keywords

Primary care; Palliative care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Caregiver satisfaction

  FAMCARE-2 survey to measure caregiver satisfaction

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Patient satisfaction

  3 months

• Clinician satisfaction

  3 months

• User feedback

  3 months

• Uptake of tool

  3 month

Study Arms (2)

Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Clinicians within the study will be randomly assigned and trained on the use of the Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Other: Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Usual Care

NO INTERVENTION

Clinicians within the study will be randomly assigned to usual palliative care (without the newly introduced tool)

Interventions

Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool OTHER

Clinicians assigned to the newly developed Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool will be trained during a 1 hour period on the application of the tool; Including rationale for tool development, objective of the tool and demonstration of the tool in action

Also known as: PaCCT

Palliative Care Comprehensive Tool

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Inclusive sample of all clinicians employed at Stonechurch Family Health Centre
• Inclusive sample of all patients over 18 years of age, registered as palliative within Stonechurch Family Health Centre and who are English speaking

Sponsors & Collaborators

• McMaster University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Stonechurch Family Health Centre, Department of Family Medicine McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, L8W3J6, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Personal Satisfaction

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Ainsley Moore, MD

  Department of Family Medicine McMaster University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Sarah Xu, MD

CONTACT

9055751300; sarah.xu@medportal.ca

Amanpaul Bhamber, MD

CONTACT

9055751300; amanpaul.bhamber@medportal.ca

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: Patients and caregivers are blinded as to whether their clinician received training and access to the newly introduced comprehensive palliative care tool. Clinicians delivering care are not blinded to use of the tool, outcome assessors are not blinded to the data
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor of Family Medicine

Model Details: Pilot prospective randomized controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 29, 2017
• First Posted: August 30, 2017
• Study Start: September 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2018
• Study Completion: June 1, 2018
• Last Updated: August 30, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)