Identification of In-hospital Patients in Need of Palliative Care Using a New Simplified Screening Tool (SST2017)
Locally Advanced Cancer, Metastatic Cancer, Chronic Respiratory Failure
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Locally Advanced Cancer focused on measuring palliative care, palliative care team, palliative care unit, screening tool, end of life, unplanned hospital admission, end-stage disease, cancer, survival, prognostic score, palliative sedation
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients admitted to Molinette Hospital (A.O.U. "Città della Salute e della Scienza"), affected by:
- locally advanced/metastatic cancer not suitable to antineoplastic therapy
- locally advanced/metastatic cancer suitable for palliative antineoplastic therapy
- locally advanced/metastatic cancer with uncontrolled symptoms
- end-stage heart failure
- end-stage respiratory failure
- end-stage liver failure
- end-stage renal failure
Exclusion Criteria:
- not able to be administered the screening tool
- major psychiatric disorders
- informed consent refusal
Sites / Locations
- Pain Management and Palliative Care, Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Molinette Hospital, University of Turin
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Extended Screening Tool (EST)
Simplified Screening Tool (SST)
The SIAARTI/NCCN (EST) screening tool is, in fact, an instrument validated by many scientific societies, but it is very articulated and its compilation is too much time-consuming.
The Simplified Screening Tool (SST) has been created through a statistical process in order to include all the critical variables, with the advantage of being shorter and therefore easier to administer in a routinely use.