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Table 2 Content of the three different questionnaires for nurses, physicians and family carers

From: Improving end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards using the Care Programme for the Last Days of Life: study protocol for a phase 3 cluster randomized controlled trial

Questionnaire

Questions

Scale

Primary and secondary outcomes

Nurse

Used from a scale

EOLD-SM

Symptom frequency*

  

EOLD-CAD

Symptom burden*

  

POS

Quality of care

 

Self-developed questions

 

Content of care, i.e. nursing interventions,

   

Communication between clinical staff and patients and/or family carers of dying patients

   

Communication among clinical staff

Physician

Self-developed questions

 

Content of care, i.e. goal of treatment, medical interventions, medication policy

Communication among clinical staff

Family carer

Used from a scale

EOLD-SM

Symptom frequency*

  

EOLD-CAD

Symptom burden*

  

FPPFC

Communication between clinical staff and patients and/or family carers of dying patients

  

EOLD-SWC

Quality of care

  

PGD

Level of bereavement

 

Self-developed questions

 

Communication between clinical staff and patients and/or family carers of dying patients

  1. *primary outcome.