Clinical trial NCT01545063: CAre of Patients With PArenteral Nutrition At Home
Official title: Prospective Non-interventional Non-controlled Multicenter Observational Study to Evaluate the Quality of Care for Adult Patients on Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Crohn's Disease
Peritoneal Carcinomatosis With Intestinal Occlusion
Radiation Enteritis
Chronic Diarrhea
Intestinal Lymphomas
Lead sponsor: KU Leuven
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen (ZNA)
name: AZ Sint-Lucas Brugge
name: Universiteit Antwerpen
name: AZ Sint-Blasius Dendermonde
name: Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden
name: Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
name: AZ Damiaan, Oostende
name: H.-Hartziekenhuis Roeselare-Menen vzw
name: Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
name: University Hospital, Ghent
name: Jessa Hospital
First posted: 2012-03-06
Enrollment: 39
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult HPN patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis with intestinal occlusion or with crohn's disease, radiation enteritis, chronic diarrhea, intestinal lymphomas.

Brief summary: This research aims to give an overview of a number of aspects related to the quality of care for adult patients on home parenteral nutrition.

Concretely this study follows up different aspects on different moments in the care of the patient pathways:

* process indicators concerning indication, parenteral nutrition, training, team access roads and the succession of complications
* Outcome indicators
* the health-related quality of life
* discrepancies in medication use
* the role of the different health care providers

Detailed description: Adult patients on HPN will be contacted by phone at three different time moments after their discharge to ask them about indicators, quality of life and discrepancies in medication use. After the follow-up, medical dossiers will be consulted to know which indicators are followed in practice.

The role of the different health care providers will be investigated by face-to-face interviews with different healthcare professionals.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients in Flanders who speak Dutch, are older then 18 years and are able to give an informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who are younger then 18 years.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Number of catheter related infections
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Antwerpen
country: Belgium
facility: Antwerpen Middelheim
city: Antwerpen
country: Belgium
facility: UZA Antwerpen Edegem
city: Bonheiden
country: Belgium
facility: Imelda Ziekenhuizen Bonheide
city: Brugge
country: Belgium
facility: AZ Sint-Lucas
city: Brussel
country: Belgium
facility: University Centrum Brussel
city: Dendermonde
country: Belgium
facility: AZ Sint Blasius Dendermonde
city: Genk
country: Belgium
facility: Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg
city: Gent
country: Belgium
facility: AZ Sint Lucas en Volkskliniek
city: Gent
country: Belgium
facility: UZ Gent
city: Hasselt
country: Belgium
facility: Hasselt Jessa Ziekenhuizen
city: Leuven
country: Belgium
facility: Catholic University
city: Oostende
country: Belgium
facility: AZ Damiaan
city: Roeselare Menen
country: Belgium
facility: Heilig Hart vzw
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