Clinical trial NCT06090825: Cross-sectional Survey on Palliative Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Patient
Official title: Real World Status of Palliative Care for Pancreatic Cancer Patients in China-a National Multi-center Cross-sectional Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer
Keywords: follow up
palliative care
pancreatic cancer
Lead sponsor: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-10-19
Enrollment: 450
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The doctors of the Department of General Surgery in more than 100 public tertiary teaching hospitals and about 350 public primary care units in the Chinese mainland

Brief summary: It is a real-world observational cross-sectional follow-up study on clinical palliative care for pancreatic cancer patients in China. It is evaluated by an online questionnaire sent to the doctors from the General Surgery Department in more than 100 public tertiary teaching hospitals and about 350 public primary care units in the Chinese mainland.

Detailed description: Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant gastrointestinal tumor with only a 10% overall 5-year survival rate. More than 80% of patients are already in the advanced stage when diagnosed, losing the chance of surgery. Advanced pancreatic cancer progresses rapidly and chemoradiotherapy has limited efficacy, so palliative care is thought to play an important role in the treatment process. However, due to the late development of palliative care, there is a lack of data on real-world clinical palliative care for pancreatic cancer patients in China.

This study investigates the real-world current status of palliative care for pancreatic cancer patients by sending a web questionnaire to the doctors from the Department of General Surgery in more than 100 public tertiary teaching hospitals and about 350 public primary care units in the Chinese mainland. The survey aims to obtain the real status of palliative care and achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to develop palliative care in hospitals.

The questionnaire includes both subjective standards like the surgeons' opinion on the development of palliative therapy and objective standards such as dedicated beds and teams for palliative care.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Doctors from the General Surgery Department in Chinese public tertiary teaching hospitals and public primary care units
* Approval to participate
* Participants with a valid and complete questionnaire evaluated by 2 experienced surgeons

Exclusion Criteria:

* Refusal to participate
* Participants with an invalid or incomplete questionnaire

Primary outcomes:
measure: Descriptions and scores of real status of hospice care in different hospitals
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Beijing
country: China
facility: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
state: Beijing
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
name: Qiaofei Liu
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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