Advance care planning in incurable cancer patients with disease progression on first line chemotherapy: a randomised trial.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1050596

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Advance care planning informs patient and care giver about end of life care options and assists patients to reflect on their goals, values and beliefs and to discuss and document their future choices. This randomised trial evaluates advance care planning in incurable cancer patients. The primary endpoint is the family member's view of the quality of death and compliance with known end of life wishes of the deceased patient. The costs of subsequent care are also recorded.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $745,946.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Family Care

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cancer prognosis | caregivers | economic evaluation | end-of-life decision making | medical oncology | metastatic cancer | palliative treatment | patient preference | quality of life | shared clinical decision making

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