Trial reportBMC health services research2015
The systematic early integration of palliative care into multidisciplinary oncology care in the hospital setting (IPAC), a randomized controlled trial: the study protocol.
Trial report in BMC health services research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01865396 (Effect of Early Palliative Care on Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effect of Early Palliative Care on Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Cancer: a Randomised Controlled Trial.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Early palliative care for adults with advanced cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- The development of local outpatient palliative care referral criteria for persons with advanced cancer at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb: a Delphi study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Defining "early palliative care" for adults diagnosed with a life-limiting illness: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Impact of early palliative care intervention in autologous bone marrow transplantation: feasibility of a multicentric study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Early Palliative Care for Oncology Patients: How APRNs Can Take the Lead.Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology · 2021Article
- Is early integration of palliative home care in oncology treatment feasible and acceptable for advanced cancer patients and their health care providers? A phase 2 mixed-methods study.BMC palliative care · 2020Article
- Implementation of Best Practice Recommendations for Palliative Care in German Comprehensive Cancer Centers.The oncologist · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies in the US and Canada, have shown the positive impact of early palliative care programs for advanced cancer patients on quality of life (QoL) and even survival time. There has been a lack of similar research in Europe. In order to generalize the findings from the US and Canada research on a larger scale, similar studies are needed in different countries with different care settings. The aim of this paper is to describe the research protocol of a randomized controlled trial, situated in Flanders, Belgium, evaluating the effect of systematic early integration of palliative care in standard oncology care. METHODS/
designA randomized controlled trial will be conducted as follows: 182 patients with advanced cancer will be recruited from the departments of Medical Oncology, Digestive Oncology and Thoracic Oncology of the Ghent University Hospital. The trial will randomize patients to either systematic early integration of palliative care in standard oncology care or standard oncology care alone. Patients and informal caregivers will be asked to fill out questionnaires on QoL, mood, illness understanding and satisfaction with care at baseline, 12 weeks and every six weeks thereafter. Other outcome measures are end-of-life care decisions and overall survival time. DISCUSSION: This trial will be the first randomized controlled trial in the Belgian health care setting to evaluate the effect of systematic early integration of palliative care for advanced cancer patients. The results will enable us to evaluate whether systematic early integration of palliative care has positive effects on QoL, mood and patient illness-understanding and which components of the intervention contribute to these effects.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01865396 , registered 24(th) of May, 2013.
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