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Integrated Care for Cancer Patients; Developing, Implementing and Testing a Programme to Improve Integrated Care

NCT00135980 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2007-03-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compose, implement and evaluate a programme to improve the quality of integrated care for patients with cancer.

Literature will be searched for components of integrated care programmes. On the basis of evidence based multi-disciplinary guidelines and literature on integrated care programmes, a set of indicators will be composed. This set will be measured in 6 hospitals on patients with non-small-cell-lung cancer. In two hospitals, an integrated care programme will be implemented and effects on processes and outcomes of care will be measured.

Conditions

  • Neoplasms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

professional audit and feedback

BEHAVIORAL

integrated care programmes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rosella Hermens, MSc,PhD · Centre for Quality of Care Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

  • Hub Wollersheim, MD,PhD · Centre for Quality of Care Research, Radboud University Medical Centre

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
ECT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-08-31
Completion
2007-07-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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