Trials / Completed
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
- Crohn's Disease
- Peritoneal Carcinomatosis With Intestinal Occlusion
- Radiation Enteritis
- Chronic Diarrhea
- Intestinal Lymphomas
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.