Clinical trial · Observational
Romanian-Swiss Research Programme IZERZO
Reality Map of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care in Romanian and Swiss Cancer Centres
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Palliative Care procedures should be integrated early in the course of disease of patients with advanced incurable cancer. With this study, where the investigators follow adult patients with incurable cancer over 6 months or until death (whatever occurs earlier), the investigators aim to identify patients' needs for Palliative Care interventions (like support in illness understanding and decision making, symptom management, concrete end-of-life preparation, and others) and their remembered delivery by health care professionals. The investigators also collect data on patients care (use of chemotherapy, intensive care in the last month of life) and quality of death and dying (assessed by post-death-interviews with bereaved relatives). The aim is to have a "reality map" on current integration of oncology and palliative care and to test if appropriate Palliative Care interventions predict a better outcome.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Incurable Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
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Design
Arms and outcomes
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[]Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Composite Endpoint
- timeFrame
- up to 6 months (or death, whichever occurs first)
- description
- A composite endpoint, composed by the outcome indicators inappropriate anticancer care, repeated ER-admissions, high symptom burden (on IPOS), "aggressive" end-of-life-care, and bad quality of death and dying (QODD)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * stage IV cancer * over 18 years * minimal symptom burden in IPOS (at least 3 symptoms over or equal 2) * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 1, 2, 3 Exclusion Criteria: * cognitively impaired * prognosis less than 1 month according to clinician
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