Hospice and End-of-life Symptom Monitoring & Support Using an Automated System Designed for Family Caregivers

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Conditions studied: Death, Cancer

In brief

Improving end-of-life care and the suffering caused by poorly controlled symptoms is an important public health concern. The development of an automated telephone symptom monitoring and support system that assists caregivers in providing end-of-life care and communicating information to the patient's hospice nurse has the potential to enhance the management of common end of life symptoms, thus reducing the suffering of patients at end of life as well as the suffering of their family caregivers. This study has developed such a system and is testing the effectiveness of this system.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02112461

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

365

Starts

2010-05-01

Expected to finish

2017-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• patient not being cared for by a partnering hospice
• patient without a histological diagnosis of cancer

Where it is running

• University of Utah College of Nursing — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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