Last 3 Months of Life in Home Ventilated Patients

Italian Multicenter Survey on the Last 3 Months of Life in Patients Ventilated at Home

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00553046

Enrollment

180

Registered

2007-11-02

Start date

2005-01-31

Completion date

2007-04-30

Last updated

2016-02-04

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Conditions

Respiratory Failure

Keywords

ethics, COPD, end of life, mechanical ventilation, CRF home ventilated patients

Brief summary

To verify with a specific questionnaire, the families' perceived quality of end-of-life care and of dying in the last 3 months of life of 168 patients (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) with chronic respiratory failure needing domiciliary mechanical ventilation (MV).

Detailed description

Participants: 168 patients' relatives presenting five categories of diseases (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyothrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) answered to questionnaire. Interventions: none Measurements and Main Results: 35 questions grouped in 6 specific domains (Control of pain and symptoms (domain 1-D1), awareness of disease (D2), family burden (D3), the process of dying (D4), medical troubles including hospitalizations (D5) and technical problems linked to MV(D6) were asked after the patient's death to a family member by means of a face to face interview. Answers to the binary 35-item questionnaire were distributed into just two clusters per each domain.

Interventions

OTHERsurvey administration

application of a family survey on last 3 months of life for their relatives under HMV

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients mechanically ventilated at home who died

Exclusion criteria

patients with cancer

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
level of family burden	3 months after patient's death

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
influence of diagnosis and modality of ventilation	3 months after patient's death

Countries

Italy

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026