PneuMonitor - Comfort and prognosis in patients with pneumonia and dementia

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON26992

Enrollment

613

Registered

2015-03-10

Start date

2012-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Dementia, pneumonia

Interventions

A practice guideline for optimal symptom relief based on evidence and consensus among national and international experts.

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Nursing home residents who reside on a psycho geriatric ward and develop a pneumonia according to clinical judgement (pneumonia most likely diagnosis)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Suffering (Discomfort: Discomfort Scale – Dementia of Alzheimer Type (DS-DAT); Pain: Pain Assessment In Advanced Dementia (PAINAD); comfort: End Of Life in Dementia – Comfort Assessment in Dying (EOLD-CAD), respiratory difficulty: Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Consciousness and survival	—

Contacts

Public ContactJ.T. Steen, van der

VU University Medical Center EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research Department of general practice & elderly care medicine Van der Boechorststraat 7

j.vandersteen@vumc.nl+31 (0)20 4449694

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)