Combined pre- and intrahospital screening to detect unmet palliative care needs in emergency patients

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00015808

Enrollment

Registered

2019-01-17

Start date

2019-02-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Z51.5

Interventions

Group 1: questionnaire based screening of emergency patients with life-limiting illnesses Palliative care consult

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: assignment by emergency medical service to the emergency department for internal medicine at the Universitätsklinikum Essen progressive, life-limiting illness or progressive malignancy in patient history answer to the surprise-question is NO --> patient is expected to die within the following 12 months written consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: age < 18 years acute or traumatic emergency situation without connection to a pre-existing life-limiting illness

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Palliative Care needs/ Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity as well as precision and negative predictive value in comarison to the palliative care consult as a gold-standard	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The secondary outcome are data describing demographic characteristics of the population taking part in our study. At the moment there is no such data published in german literature. The last descripive data about patients with palliative care needs in emergency settings is dated 2007 and derives only from preclinical care.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJoachim Riße

Zentrum für Notfallmedizin Universitätsklinikum Essen

notfallmedizin@uk-essen.de+49 (0) 201 - 723 - 6482

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026