Strengthening interprofessional collaboration for patients with palliative care needs – development and evaluation of a new concept

Conditions

F00 J44.9 I50 F03 F01 Z51.5

Jan Philip Weber, Christiane Müller, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Silke Böttcher, Uta Sekanina et al. (10 authors)

BMC Palliative Care2026-02-26

10.1186/s12904-026-02024-0

Effects of timely case conferencing between general practitioners and specialist palliative care services on symptom burden in patients with advanced chronic disease: results of the cluster-randomised controlled KOPAL trial.

Mallon T, Schulze J, Pohontsch N, Asendorf T, Weber J, Böttcher S, Sekanina U, Schade F, Schneider N, Dams J, Freitag M, Müller C, Nauck F, Friede T, Scherer M, Marx G.

2024-12-20

10.1186/s12904-024-01623-z

Experiences of patients with advanced chronic diseases and their associates with a structured palliative care nurse visit followed by an interprofessional case conference in primary care - a deductive-inductive content analysis based on qualitative interviews (KOPAL-Study).

Pohontsch NJ, Weber J, Stiel S, Schade F, Nauck F, Timm J, Scherer M, Marx G.

2024-09-042 citations

10.1186/s12875-024-02572-5

Timely integration of specialist palliative home care (SPHC) for patients with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and dementia: qualitative evaluation of the experiences of SPHC physicians in the KOPAL trial

Franziska Schade, Danica Hüttenrauch, Sven Schwabe, Christiane A Mueller, Nadine Janis Pohontsch et al. (9 authors)

BMJ Open2024-07-013 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085564

Effectiveness of a specialist palliative home care nurse–patient consultation followed by an interprofessional telephone case conference compared with usual care among patients with non-oncological palliative care needs: protocol for the multicentre KOPAL cluster-randomised controlled trial

Gabriella Marx, Tina Mallon, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Franziska Schade, Judith Dams et al. (19 authors)

BMJ Open2022-07-0115 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059440

Interventions

Group 1: Intervention: Participants receive a 30-minute visit from a specialized palliative care nurse. The visit is followed by a 30-minute interdisciplinary telephone case conference by the patient

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: congestive heart failure (NYHA 3-4), dementia (GDS =4), or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Gold 3-4, group D), at least one consultation with the GP in the last three months, no support from SPHC services, no tumour diagnosis, signed consent form

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: congestive heart failure (NYHA <3, no hospitalisation in the last 12 months), dementia (GDS <4), or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Gold <3), no visit at the GP in the last three months, a current tumour diagnosis, current support from specialized ambulatory palliative care, no signed consent form

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Number of hospital admissions	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Symptom burden (including pain), health-related quality of life, health care utilization (including current medication, involved health care providers and health costs), place of death.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactGabriella Marx

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institut und Poliklinik für Allgemeinmedizin

kopal@uke.de040 7410-57159

Outcome results

None listed