Palliative Care Costs for Outpatient Setting Management in Catalunya

NCT05412784 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 22/006-P
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 100
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Cost-of-illness studies in palliative care (PC) are a growing area of interest in health economics activity. They are, in part, stakeholders' basis for deciding the allocation of the scarce public and private economic resources. There is no standard methodology to capture the formal and informal costs and expenses that health services and patients and their caregivers make during the PC attention period due to non-standard health services, and data capture approaches.

Conditions

Palliative Care; Cost and Cost Analysis; Outpatient

Keywords

Palliative Care [MeSH]; Cost and Cost Analysis [MeSH]; Outpatients [MeSH]

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Determination of economic burden (costs) of palliative care in the outpatient context.

  Calculation and report the economic burden (i.e., total costs) of outpatient palliative care services, medications and procedures covered and financed by the healthcare system alongside with those covered by the patients and their families/caregivers during the last six (6) months of life (in adult patients with lung, colorectal and breast neoplasms and with terminal cardiac heart failure \[CHF\] and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease \[COPD\]).

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Type of costs.

  6 months

• Differentiate and compare costs.

  6 months -1 year

Eligibility Criteria

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

Study Population

Patients with a history of breast, lung, and colorectal neoplasm or Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), managed in the outpatient/domiciliary scenarios and their families/caregivers.

You may qualify if:

• Clinical diagnosis of breast, lung, and colorectal neoplasm or Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
• Patient and caregivers must be able to maintain a 1-hour telephonic interview.
• Patient and caregivers must allow one (1) more telephone call to revise data.

You may not qualify if:

• Cases with an open legal process.
• Family/caregivers of patients that can't communicate in fluent Spanish or Catalan.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina: lead
• Hospital Clinic of Barcelona: collaborator

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Target Duration: 1 Month
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 31, 2022
• First Posted: June 9, 2022
• Study Start: April 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2023
• Study Completion: March 31, 2024
• Last Updated: March 17, 2023

Record last verified: 2022-05