Clinical trial · Observational
Evaluation of End of Life Quality of Care
Evaluation of the Relevance Indicators of Quality of Care for Dying Patients Based on Analysis of Care and Follow-up Course of the Leonetti Law. EFIQUAVIE Study
- 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)
The study uses a mixed method study to evaluate wether the use of the indicators of the Quality of end-of-life cancer care, developed by Earle et al \[Earle JCO 2003; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.03.059\] would be relevant and measurable in France. The qualitative part of study was designed to investigate the representations of quality by face-to face interviews with family carer of recently deceased cancer patients, and with their oncologists, and nurses. The quantitative part of the study, consisted in a decedents case series analysis, diagnosed with advanced cancer and followed up in 5 centers. Data on trajectory of care were collected from different complementary sources associating national mortality data, hospital activity data, and health records. The study was approved by the French data protection authority (CNIL) number 611273.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of Life Care | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Neoplasm Malignant | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Quality of Life | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
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Design
Arms and outcomes
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[]Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Use of emergency services within last 30 days before death
- timeFrame
- Through study completion, up to 1 year
Secondary outcomes (5)
- measure
- Patients received chemotherapy in the last 14 days of life
- timeFrame
- Through study completion, up to 1 year
- measure
- Location of death
- timeFrame
- Through study completion, up to 1 year
- measure
- Among patients who died in palliative care unit, those who died within 3 days after admission
- timeFrame
- Through study completion, up to 1 year
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion criteria * Patients aged ≥ 18, * diagnosed with advanced cancer (recruited from hospital activity data, by a stay with a ICD code of metastatic cancer between Oct 1st, 2009 and Dec 31, 2010) * deceased between, Jan 1st, 2010 and Dec 31, 2010 (vital status identified either from hospital activity data, or from national mortality statistics) Exclusion Criteria: * diagnosis with non solid tumor (haematology) * age \< 18
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