Aggressiveness of Care at the End of Life in Cancer Patients

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00980122

Enrollment

250

Registered

2009-09-18

Start date

2008-03-31

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2010-04-08

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Conditions

Advanced Cancer

Keywords

Advanced cancer patients dying in hospital receive aggressive cancer-specific therapy and supportive measures.

Brief summary

Cancer is the commonest cause of death in Singapore, and many cancer deaths occur in hospital. Management of cancer patients is getting more complex with constant development of new drugs, interventional procedures and supportive measures. Despite this, the majority of advanced cancer patients will die from their disease or related complications. There is a lack of data on the utilisation of health resources in advanced cancer patients in this country. In this study the investigators ask themselves how aggressive care was in the last 3 months of the patient's life. The investigators will be collecting data on specific cancer treatments, interventional procedures, and supportive measures.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Advanced cancer patients who passed away as an inpatient in NUH, under the department of Haematology Oncology.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients with haematologic malignancies.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
To describe the trends in the aggressiveness of care for advanced cancer patients near the end of life.	—

Countries

Singapore

Outcome results