116
Participants
Start Date
September 10, 2018
Primary Completion Date
August 23, 2019
Study Completion Date
April 30, 2021
Advance Directives
The palliative care physician engaged patients and their caregivers in an open discussion about patients' answers to the Advance Directives document, to explore and clarify all doubts and questions prompted by the document
Control
The palliative care physician undergone a conference with both patients and caregivers and evaluated patients' symptoms using the the Edmonton Frail Scale (Bruera, 1991), adapted to the Portuguese population. The Advance Directives theme wasn't approached during this conference.
Tràs-os-Montes and Alto Douro Hospital Centre, Vila Real
Universidade do Porto
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