Identification of Obstacles and Levers to the Outpatient Care of Patients in Terminal Palliative Situations

Identification of Obstacles and Levers to the Outpatient Care of Patients in Terminal Palliative Situations: Exploratory Study Among General Practitioners in Bas-Rhin

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07191184

Acronym

PTPS

Enrollment

Registered

2025-09-24

Start date

2024-09-16

Completion date

2025-12-16

Last updated

2025-09-24

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Conditions

End of Life

Keywords

Palliative care, Terminal palliative situations

Brief summary

80% of patients wish to die at home. The number of deaths will increase in the coming years due to the aging population. The general practitioner (GP) is at the center of this care. Despite national plans for the development of palliative care, dying at home remains complicated. The difficulties described and known are organizational (workload) and linked to the doctor's experience with the suffering of the patient and their family. Many studies have been conducted in hospital settings, and the solutions developed are often not very accessible to GP. Conducting a study on this subject will allow us to take stock of this outpatient care provided by general practitioners following numerous changes that have occurred in recent years, both in terms of palliative care teaching and in terms of modifications to the care offered.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* General physician based in Bas-Rhin * Agreeing to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

* Refusing to participate in the research * Replacement physician, specialist physician, based outside Bas-Rhin

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Identify barriers to outpatient care for terminally ill palliative patients by general practitioners in the Bas Rhin region.	At 8 months

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactCatherine CHEVALIER-LAMOUILLE, MD

catherine.lamouille@chru-strasbourg.fr33 3 88 11 65 86

Outcome results