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CompletedNCT01545063

CAre of Patients With PArenteral Nutrition At Home

Prospective Non-interventional Non-controlled Multicenter Observational Study to Evaluate the Quality of Care for Adult Patients on Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN)

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
39 (actual)
Sponsor
KU Leuven · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This research aims to give an overview of a number of aspects related to the quality of care for adult patients on home parenteral nutrition. Concretely this study follows up different aspects on different moments in the care of the patient pathways: * process indicators concerning indication, parenteral nutrition, training, team access roads and the succession of complications * Outcome indicators * the health-related quality of life * discrepancies in medication use * the role of the different health care providers

Detailed description

Adult patients on HPN will be contacted by phone at three different time moments after their discharge to ask them about indicators, quality of life and discrepancies in medication use. After the follow-up, medical dossiers will be consulted to know which indicators are followed in practice. The role of the different health care providers will be investigated by face-to-face interviews with different healthcare professionals.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2012-05-01
Primary completion
2013-04-01
Completion
2013-04-01
First posted
2012-03-06
Last updated
2017-07-19

Locations

13 sites across 1 country: Belgium

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01545063. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.