Interstitial lung disease and lung cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients who meet all of the following criteria are eligible 1. Patients who died of interstitial lung disease or lung cancer in the respiratory medicine department of the participating institutions. Drug-induced lung injury and radiation pneumonitis are not included in interstitial lung disease in this study. 2. The age of the patient at the time of death is 20 years or older. 3. The age of the bereaved family is 20 years or older.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients who meet any of the following criteria will not be included in this study 1. Death due to adverse events or judged as treatment-related death. 2. The bereaved family (key person, underwriter) cannot be identified. 3. It is considered difficult for the bereaved family to answer questions about the care they received at the end of life due to restricted visitation. 4. The bereaved family is unable to fill out the survey form due to dementia, mental disability, or visual impairment at the time of discharge. 5. Based on the circumstances at the time of discharge and at present, the bereaved family member is mentally unstable, making it undesirable to conduct the study. 6. Implementation of the research is undesirable as a comprehensive judgment by doctors, nurses, and other multidisciplinary professionals due to strong distrust or misunderstanding of the medical care received or extremely poor relationships with medical personnel.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Good death inventory (GDI) scores for the "Physical and mental pain relief" domain. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The average 10-item score of the Good death inventory (GDI) Prevalence of each physical and psychiatric symptom using MSAS scale assessment Improvement rate of dyspnea symptoms | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Hamamatsu university school of medicine Respiratory Medicine