Status:
Active
Purpose:
To adapt, implement and evaluate a palliative care program, called Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) through a randomized control trial in three Canadian provinces.
Setting:
Eighteen long-term care homes across three provinces (ON, MB, SK)
Data Analysis in progress
Canadian Institute of Health Research
Kaasalainen S, Wickson-Griffiths A, Hunter P, Thompson G, Kruizinga J, McCleary L, Sussman T, Venturato L, Shaw S, Boamah SA, Bourgeois-Guérin V, Hadjistavropoulos T, Macdonald M, Martin-Misener R, McClement S, Parker D, Penner J, Ploeg J, Sinclair S, Fisher K. Evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) programme: a protocol of a cluster randomised control trial. BMJ Open. 2023 Oct 25;13(10):e073585. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073585. PMID: 37880170; PMCID: PMC10603462.