Four new CCU-AH selected for their research projects

As part of the 5th National Plan "development of palliative care and support for the end of life" 2021-2024, positions for university clinical leaders - hospital assistants (CCU-AH) in palliative medicine have been created, with the aim of developing research.

A first wave of selections had awarded three positions in 2022. A second call for applications was issued in spring 2023 and, as in the previous year, the National Platform for End-of-Life Research contributed to the selection of candidates. Four winners were selected:

Ariane DE BUYER will work in the palliative care team at Cochin Hospital, on the ESOP "Et si on en parlait" project. She will reflect on a discussion device dedicated to anticipating preferences in the event of aggravation. She will seek to characterize, in a population of 100 cancer patients, the profile of those who engage in the discussion process.

At the Centre pour l'Innovation en Cancérologie de Lyon (CiCLy EA 3738. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), we are interested in the difficulty of transposing results obtained in a controlled situation during a scientific study into a pre-existing care system. Numerous implementation frameworks (summaries of the elements to be taken into account when designing an intervention) have been proposed. The aim of Chloé BRUNEAU 's research work will be to synthesize the characteristics of implementation frameworks in order to determine whether they are relevant to complex interventions in palliative care, and to adapt them, if necessary (find the description of this study in the project directory).

At the Département interdisciplinaire des soins de support et des soins palliatifs oncologiques (DISSPO) at the Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, Colin VERCUEIL will focus on the decision to transfer advanced cancer patients to intensive care. The aim will be to better understand the factors involved in this decision, but also to study the fate of these patients. The ultimate aim would be to help update recommendations to support doctors and limit the aggressiveness of end-of-life care. (Find out more about this project).

Giulia BETTINI is attached to UMR_S 1158 Inserm-Sorbonne Université: Experimental and clinical respiratory neurophysiology. She will be conducting research into the attitudes of continuing education students to dyspnea and pain (Dys-Co-PCT study Persistent Dyspnea discovery through experiential teaching in Palliative Care Training). Its aim is to explore the issue of the invisibility of dyspnea and to evaluate the impact of teaching to experience these respiratory difficulties on caregivers' attitudes.

A new call for applications for new positions is planned for spring 2024.

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