Integrated Short-term Palliative Rehabilitation to improve quality of life and equitable care access in incurable cancer (INSPIRE): a multinational European research project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disability related to incurable cancer affects over a million Europeans each year and people with cancer rank loss of function among the most common unmet supportive care needs.

Objectives

To test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an integrated short-term palliative rehabilitation intervention, to optimise function and quality of life in people affected by incurable cancer.

Design

This is a multinational, parallel group, randomised, controlled, assessor blind, superiority trial.

Methods

The INSPIRE consortium brings together leaders in palliative care, oncology and rehabilitation from partner organisations across Europe, with complementary expertise in health service research, trials of complex interventions, mixed-method evaluations, statistics

SUBMITTER: Bayly J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10291227 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature